DRIFTING RAFT HAS COVERED 4100 MILES
Received Thursday, 7.0 p.m. NEW YORK, July 30. The Kontiki expedition radioed that its raft was on its course and making 50 miles daily as it drifts towards the most dangeroifs part of its voyage — tlie narrow treacherous channels of the Tuamotu islands. With one sail and one oar the Norwegian scientists will have to feel their way between the chains of islands through shifting currents, sandbars and jagged rocks. The raft's present position — 136 degrees 44 minutes west and 13 degrees 57 minutes south — is ahout 90 miles from Puka Puka Island, the first of the Tuamotus. The raft has now covered 4100 miles along its projected course from Peru to Tahiti.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 August 1947, Page 5
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