ADRIFT ON RAFT
EXPEDITION SIGHTS LAND LONG JOURNEY FROM PERU Rec. 9 p.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 2. The Kon-Tiki expedition radioed that it sighted land on July 30 for the first time since it left Callao, Peru, three months and a day previously, in an attempt to prove that the pre-Incan blonde race could have drifted on rafts from Peru to Polynesia about 1500 years ago. It was Pukapuka Island, the easternmost atoll of the Tuamotu group. Unfavourable winds were driving the raft off, but the Norwegian scientists managed to work it along about seven miles south of the island, parallel to its two-mile coast. The scientists reported that they are having some difficulty now they are in the heart of the archipelago, but are keeping a constant lookout for another island so placed that current and wind will permit the raft to make shore. The cross currents are strong and treacherous, and the raft is subject to considerable side drift.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26530, 4 August 1947, Page 5
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