1) In 1947, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl sailed a balsa wood raft called the Kon-Tiki from Peru to French Polynesia with 5 companions to demonstrate that ancient South Americans could have settled Polynesia. 2) The expedition was inspired by reports of Inca rafts by Spanish Conquistadors and aimed to prove Heyerdahl's theory that Polynesians originated from ancient Peru, not Asia as most believed. 3) After 101 days at sea, the Kon-Tiki expedition proved successful in crossing the Pacific, though Heyerdahl nearly drowned when the raft crashed into a reef upon arriving in French Polynesia.

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2. • Would you sail a primitive raft for 4,300 nautical
miles across the world’s biggest ocean for 101
days, in a pae-pae raft they constructed from
balsa wood?
• christened the Kon Tiki? do you think that you
could, or do you think people could or that they
are maybe a little crazy if they do?
• well I know someone who did and yes I think he
might sometimes I think he might have been
mental; but he believed.

3. • The expedition encluded Thor Heyerdahl,
Erik Hesselberg, Bengt Danielsson, Knut
Haugland, Torstein Raaby, Herman
Watzinger.
• The expedition also carried a pet parrot
named Lorita.

4. • Thor Heyerdahl first searched for a wife in the news
paper for someone who would come to French
Polynesia with him and never come back to Norway.
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5. • In 1947, Heyerdahl and five fellow adventurers
sailed from Peru to French Polynesia.
• The Kon-Tiki expedition was inspired by old
reports and drawings made by the Spanish
Conquistadors of Inca rafts, and by nati.
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6. • People were starting to regret coming, were
they lost were they going to die, would they
actually ever going to get there, what do you
think? Yes, no.
• They did in the end but as kon-tiki they
crashed into a rock and as Thor had never
learnt how to swim it wasn’t pleasant but they
washed up onto the shore of French Polynesia

7. • He thought that the people on French
Polynesia were not from the surrounding
Islands but all the way from America
• loads of people abused him but he kept cool
because he knew that one day he would prove
them wrong and he would show them. Who
could have thought it would lead to Kon-tiki?

9. 1. Where did Thor go?
French Polynesia
2.What did he write in the newspaper before he
left?
for a wife
3.Whatdid he show out of these3 by just believing?
a)zest
b)Self control
c)Gratitude
b)