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    Thor Heyerdahl (named after Thor Heyerdahl), originally named Tinka, later Marga Henning, Silke, and Minnow, was built as a freight carrying motor ship...
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    Thor Heyerdahl KStJ (Norwegian pronunciation: [tuːr ˈhæ̀ɪəɖɑːɫ]; 6 October 1914 – 18 April 2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background...
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    Kon-Tiki expedition (category Thor Heyerdahl)
    writer Thor Heyerdahl. The raft was named Kon-Tiki after the Inca god Viracocha, for whom "Kon-Tiki" was said to be an old name. Heyerdal's book on the expedition...
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    Thor Heyerdahl is a Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy. Built by the Spanish shipbuilders Navantia, in Ferrol, Thor Heyerdahl was...
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  • Kon-Tiki (2012 film) (category Films set in the Pacific Ocean)
    about the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition. The film was mainly shot on the island of Malta. The role of Thor Heyerdahl is played by Pål Sverre Hagen. The film...
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    it and at the end of the charter the Thor Heyerdahl was laid up in Gothenburg. In May 1994 the ship was sold to Inreko, at the time one of the owners of...
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    opened. The museum was originally built to house the Kon-Tiki, a raft of balsa wood of pre-Columbian model that Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl used...
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    Reed boat (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Corfu. The explorations and investigations of the Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl have resulted in a better understanding of the construction...
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    Barquentine (category Merchant sailing ship types)
    development training ship. Thor-Heyerdahl Transit, an experimental design of 1800 that could be worked entirely from the deck. Although in fact the term "brig"...
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  • The Norwegian Archaeological Expedition to Easter Island occurred in 1955, and was led by Thor Heyerdahl. For the trip, he converted a 150-foot Greenland...
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