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Of Thor Heyerdahl's epic story of, the Kon-Tiki's historic trip!
It started from Peru, you see, with a total crew of six-
And when crashed ashore in Raroria, there was not much left but sticks.
(***More intact than not, actually, but I digress...)
The crew all became mighty sailing men, the skipper brave! and he knew!
They could cross the Pacific to Poly-nes-i-a if they'd depart right from Peru...
It took a hundred days plus one, but all the crew was safe-
They made radio contact just in time, to stop a massive rescue attempt!
If you can visit Oslo, Norway, you'd get the chance to see him-
For the raft now rests calmly ashore, in his own Kon-Tiki Museum.
(My sincerest apologies to Sherwood Schwartz, the writer of the The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle, whose lyrical talents far exceed mine, for the above poetic attempt.)
Read about the Kon-Tiki and see the movie: I did!
***Navigator and Artist Erik Hesselberg
and Technical Engineer and Data Recorder Herman Watzinger
do not as yet have Wikipedia articles: The rest of the crew does, seen below.
Balsa wood is the wood of the balsa tree, Latin name Ochroma pyramidale.
Inhabitants of Tahiti are Tahitians.
Tahiti, a French Polynesian island, was originally known as Otaheite. Tahiti got the name Tahiti from the European settlers.
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Francisco sailed with his army over to Peru in 15th century and arrived in Lima. He fought the Incas and changed the capital city Cuzco into Lima.
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Republic of Peru