Kon-Tiki explorer dies at 87.

From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: April 19, 2002 | Copyright information

THOR Heyerdahl, the Norwegian explorer who crossed the Pacific on a balsa wood raft, has died at 87.

Heyerdahl, who won worldwide acclaim with his 1947 voyage on a replica of an Aboriginal balsa raft called Kon-Tiki, had been battling cancer.

The disease spread to his brain despite surgery last year. He died at a family home in Colla Micheri in northern Italy. He is best remembered for his 101-day voyage in 1947 from South America to Polynesia on the Kon-Tiki...

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