RAFT VOYAGE BEGUN
4000-MILE PACIFIC DRIFT NORWEGIAN SCIENTISTS (11 a.m.) CALLAO, Peru, April 28. Six Norwegian scientists, on frail balsa wood and bamboo rafts, set out to-day on a daring 4000-mile voyage to try to prove that the South Sea Islands were originally settled by prehistoric white men from South America. Their 45ft. by 18ft. vessel named Kon-Tiki after the legendary South American god, was towed southward along the coast by a navy tug which, after 150 miles, will cast it adrift in the strong Humboldt current. The scientists hope that within four months they will reach Taumotu Archipelago, comprising the Marquesas Islands. _
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22317, 30 April 1947, Page 5
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