The Kon-Tiki Expedition, 1947

The Kon-Tiki raft was built in 1947; it was made by taking as a model a copy of the wooden rafts that the South American Indians used in ancient times.

Six people, with Thor Heyerdahl among them, sailed in it. They departed from the port of
El Callao, in Peru, and arrived to the Island of Raroia, in the Polynesian Islands.