1947 - Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl carries out one of the world’s

most adventurous expeditions, crossing the Pacific Ocean on a prehistoric

raft built out of nine balsa logs. No one believed it was possible, but the

Kon-Tiki drifted with the currents and winds for 101 days before crashing

into the reef at Raroia in French Polynesia. Heyerdahl and his crew, including

Swede Bengt Danielsson, thus proved it was possible to travel from South-

America to Polynesia on a balsa raft.

2006 - Fifty-nine years later, a new balsa raft was built – and just as in 1947,

a Swede was on board. This time it was filmmaker Anders Berg, documenting

the adventure, which aimed to develop the steering properties of the balsa raft.

Over the course of many years, Anders and his former company Sebra Film

documented the journeys and expeditions of Thor Heyerdahl around the world.

The Tangaroa Expedition was an 87-day journey of about 8,500 km – nearly

1/5 of the surface of the earth. The average speed was about 2.5 knots and

the raft passed through five time zones.

Contact us for a quotation if you would like to hear the lecture on “A Journey

in the Wake of the Kon-Tiki”.

In the summer of 2011, a photographic exhibition of the Pacific Ocean

adventure was presented and is available for rent/further exhibition by arrangement.