Kon tiki

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

In 1947, a Norwegian adventurer named Thor Heyerdahl set out to prove a theory of his that the people of Polynesia came there from South America. To prove his theory, he built a raft out of local materials in Peru and set sail across the Pacific. His voyage was successful, but the same couldn’t be said for his theories. Learn more about Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki Expedition on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

Well lit underwater subject + almost a silhouette of a subject above. Great stuff!

The Kon Tiki contact with a whale-shark as depicted by Erik Hesselberg.

Knut Haugland, the last surviving crew member of the Kon-Tiki died on December 25. The six man 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition, organized by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl, set out from Callao in Peru …

Herman Watzinger showing his capture in the Kon Tiki

The word "tiki" came to mean a lot more in the '40s and '50s. It's now a culture represented by colorful umbrella-adorned cocktails and ceramic mugs.

Filming a biopic on Thor Heyerdahl became its own odyssey, writes Stephanie Bunbury.

Real-life explorer and mad person Thor Heyerdahl would have been a wild guy to hang with back in 1947—and maybe die with.