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From the news archives 64 years ago: Polynesians fete Kon-Tiki crew after grounding on Raroia reef

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The following article came from the digitized archives of Google News (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=jvrRlaHg2sAC&dat=19471003&printsec=frontpage&hl=en, page 48)...

The Milwaukee Journal October 3, 1947















-Tom

K

awesome Tom, thanks.

HJ

Wow, what a Tiki-archaeology find!

Thank you for posting. 'Gonna print that and put it in copy of the book.

T

komohana and Haole Jim, here are a couple of related articles (see Google News http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=jvrRlaHg2sAC&dat=19470811&printsec=frontpage&hl=en, pages 1 and 9, then http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=jvrRlaHg2sAC&dat=19470820&printsec=frontpage&hl=en, page 28)...

The Milwaukee Journal August 11, 1947





The Milwaukee Journal August 20, 1947

-Tom

P

Nice read. Mahalo.

X
xtine posted on Sun, Nov 27, 2011 7:01 AM

Thanks for posting! This was great!

T

pablus and xtine, glad you enjoyed the read. The 1947 Kon-Tiki voyage continues to hold up as a fascinating real-life adventure tale, and it was accompanied by real-world risks of great harm (Google News http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=jvrRlaHg2sAC&dat=19471011&printsec=frontpage&hl=en, page 14)...

The Milwaukee Journal October 11, 1947

-Tom

I wonder how the new movie version of this will turn out..

http://www.newsinenglish.no/2011/05/26/kon-tiki-filming-a-family-affair/

I posted some new U-Tube links in the appropriate thread:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=220&forum=1

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