Who was Thor Heyerdahl, the last ‘doodilizado’ by Google? – Reuters

Madrid, 6 Oct (IRIN) –

Thor Heyerdahl was an explorer, adventurer and Norwegian biologist, born October 6, 1914 , who rose to fame after crossing the Pacific Ocean on a log raft on an expedition known as Kon-tiki . The aim of Heyerdahl was to show that Polynesia could have been colonized from South America and not from Asia, as the scientific community thinks

The expedition was made up Heyerdahl and five other crewmen. Knut Haugland, Bengt Danielsson, Erick Hesselberg, Torstein Raaby and Herman Watzinger . For 101 days toured 4,700 miles from Peru to French Polynesia, achieved a success, both scientific and commercial. For this reason, a hundred years after his birth, Google devotes to this Norwegian one of his famous hero ‘doodle’.

Heyerdahl’s theory about the migration process does not can be ruled out, because after touring the trip they made with pre-Columbian elements (except communication equipment), but the scientific community remains committed to was Asia the continent from which colonized the Polynesia .

The documentary made on the expedition, also called Kon-Tiki, won the Oscar in 1951 , which gave more impact both his protagonist as a feat. So much so that in 2012 they did a remake with a film about the expedition.

But despite the fame and the perils lived for 101 days, Thor not the rest of his life stood still . I also wanted to show that for Egypt could have communicated with America . Therefore, by the Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genoese , the May 17, 1970 departed from Morocco destiny in the Promised Land papyrus boat called Ra II. With these expeditions , he called ‘The RA Expeditions’ , won another Oscar nomination, this time as a producer.

The last great expedition aimed to cross the river Tigris , to, again, show that the people living in today Pakistan could have communicated with the peoples of the former Mesopotamia.

Your theories are unproven, but thanks to ‘travel’ can not be completely ruled out. What is clear is that Heyerdahl was an off-road adventurer, writer, scientist … and especially loving the planet, because at the end of his life he favored the environmental movement while preaching: “Never Borders I’ve seen one. But I heard that exist in the minds of some people. “