DRIFTED 4360 MILES TO PROVE THEORY
Received Wednesday, 8.35 p.m. WASHINGTON, August 19. The Governor of French Oceania has advised the Norwegian Embassy at Washington that he is sending a ship from Tahiti to pick up the stranded crew of the Kon-Tiki raft expedition in the Tuamotu Archipelago. » A group of six young scientists sailed and drifted 4360 miles to prove a theory that the blond, blue-eyed followers of Tiki, the sun god, who hrought a pre-Incan and pre-Aztec civilisation to Latin America, carried their influence to the Polynesian islands some 1500 years ago. From Tahiti the raft crew plan to return to Norway via United States.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 August 1947, Page 5
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