KonTiki 2008 results are available for download here, well done to all participants
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New updated 2008 consent forms are now avalible for download.
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The following documents can now be downloaded from Kontiki Downloads
KonTiki Booklet rev12 final - 2008
KonTiki Beaver - 2008
KonTiki Beaver Rules - 2008
KonTiki CellPhone - 2008
KonTiki Competition Entry - 2008
KonTiki Consent - 2008
KonTiki Entry - 2008
KonTiki Market Application Form - 2008
KonTiki Marking Guidelines (Teams) original - 2008
KonTiki Mixed Team
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Back to Brownsea Island - The new 2008 website is now up. Visit the site to get past results, info on previous themes and trophies, downloads, news and more.
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This is an extract from "Aloe Fjord Adventure" from the TRANSVAAL SCOUTER, dated July 1961.
Skipper Rodney Louis, of the raft "Rosybank", logged the time as 11h33. It was a moment for which the crews had worked and planned for three and a half months.
For the next 36 hours
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Firstly, you take 984 two-litre softdrink bottles that have been collected over a period of almost a year.
You then take into account that you have to provide for flotation of 575kg (240kg for raft, 240kg for crew, 24kg for water and 70kg for equipment and supplies).
You then design a raft
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Thor Heyerdahl received a zoological grant for the years 1937 - 1938 to research animal life on the Marquesas Islands.
His interest instead turned to how the Marquesas Islands, and Polynesian Islands, had been populated.
He observed that wind and ocean streams flowed from east to west, and since there
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