Wednesday, April 17
news.com.au / AFP Kon Tiki explorer 'slipping away' "Thor Heyerdahl led a six-man expedition which left Callao, Peru, on April 28, 1947, and sailed on a balsa raft across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia to prove to the world that the Pacific Islands were inhabited by migrants from South America and not only from South-East Asia." Heyerdahl's adventure caught the imagination of many people around the world.
