FOLLOWING THE ROUTE OF PRE-INCAN VOYAGERS
Fubceived Friday, 9,50 p.m. NEW YOftK, June 20. The six Norwegian scientists of the Kon-Tiki raft expedition which is atteinpting to follow the presumed route of pre-Incan migration from Peru to Polynesia 1500 years ago have radioed that they made a record drift in the Hiunboldt Current of 132 miles in the last two days. The raft is already ahead of schedule and il the new speed is held the expedition should reach Tahiti in approxiniately 100 days instead of the 120 estimated when the scientists left Oallao. Earlier this week the Norwegian^ radioed that they had passed the halfway mark in 55 days. The raft depends for its propulsion on the normal drift of the ITumboldt Current and a small square sail. The two days' spurt compares favourably with the speed °of small sloops and yawls which average approximately 100 miies daily in ' the southeast trade winds between the Galapagos Islands and the Society Islands.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19470621.2.29
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 21 June 1947, Page 5
Word Count
162FOLLOWING THE ROUTE OF PRE-INCAN VOYAGERS Chronicle (Levin), 21 June 1947, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in