#THOR HEYERDAHL FREE#

Īfter the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, he served with the Free Norwegian Forces from 1944, in the far north province of Finnmark. The marriage ended in divorce shortly before the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition, which Liv had helped to organize. Eventually, the couple had two sons: Thor Jr. He was 22 years old and she was 20 years old. On the day before they sailed together to the Marquesas Islands in 1936, Heyerdahl married Liv Coucheron-Torp (1916–1969), whom he had met at the University of Oslo, and who had studied economics there. He was to visit some isolated Pacific island groups and study how the local animals had found their way there. (This collection was later purchased by the University of Oslo Library from Kroepelien's heirs and was attached to the Kon-Tiki Museum research department.)Īfter seven terms and consultations with experts in Berlin, a project was developed and sponsored by Heyerdahl's zoology professors, Kristine Bonnevie and Hjalmar Broch. At the same time, he privately studied Polynesian culture and history, consulting what was then the world's largest private collection of books and papers on Polynesia, owned by Bjarne Kroepelien, a wealthy wine merchant in Oslo. He studied zoology and geography at the faculty of biological science at the University of Oslo. He created a small museum in his childhood home, with a common adder ( Vipera berus) as the main attraction. As a young child, Heyerdahl showed a strong interest in zoology, inspired by his mother, who had a strong interest in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Heyerdahl was born in Larvik, Norway, the son of master brewer Thor Heyerdahl (1869–1957) and his wife, Alison Lyng (1873–1965). 8 'The Search for Odin' in Azerbaijan and Russia.The Heyerdahl Archives are administered by the Kon-Tiki Museum and the National Library of Norway in Oslo. The Heyerdahl Archives span the years 1937 to 2002 and include his photographic collection, diaries, private letters, expedition plans, articles, newspaper clippings, and original book and article manuscripts.

At the time, this list included 238 collections from all over the world. In May 2011, the Thor Heyerdahl Archives were added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. The Norwegian government gave him a state funeral in Oslo Cathedral on 26 April 2002.

He died on 18 April 2002 in Colla Micheri, Italy, while visiting close family members. He was appointed a government scholar in 1984. Heyerdahl made other voyages to demonstrate the possibility of contact between widely separated ancient peoples, notably the Ra II expedition of 1970, when he sailed from the west coast of Africa to Barbados in a papyrus reed boat. This was linked to a diffusionist model of cultural development. The expedition was designed to demonstrate that ancient people could have made long sea voyages, creating contacts between societies. Heyerdahl is notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947, in which he sailed 8,000 km (5,000 mi) across the Pacific Ocean in a hand-built raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands. Thor Heyerdahl ( Norwegian pronunciation: 6 October 1914 – 18 April 2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany and geography.

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