It was the successful end of the Kon-Tiki expedition.

Another related factor was the excitement surrounding the Kon-Tiki expedition.

Five of the six men in the Kon-Tiki expedition were Scouts.

After the Kon-Tiki expedition Haugland returned to the military.

It houses vessels and maps from the Kon-Tiki expedition, as well as a library with about 8000 books.

After the war, Haugland continued his military career for many years, except for 1947 when he took part in the Kon-Tiki expedition (see below).

Haugland died on 25 December 2009, and was the last living crew member who served on the Kon-Tiki expedition.

The Kon-Tiki expedition was funded by private loans, along with donations of equipment from the United States Army.

The voyages were inspired by the Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki expeditions.

In 1947 Haugland was invited by Heyerdahl to join the Kon-Tiki expedition as a radio operator.

Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki expedition was designed to show that migrants from Peru could have reached Polynesia.

Named after Thor Heyrdahl's Kon-tiki expedition of 1947, teams compete to build and live on a raft for a weekend.

The film is the dramatised story of Thor Heyerdahl and his Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947.

The first thing to greet guests as they entered the lobby was the great globe used by Thor Heyerdahl to plan his Kon-Tiki expedition.

Their journey was almost twice as long as the Kon-Tiki expeditions of 1947 and proved that people could have travelled across the Pacific in ancient times.

December 25 - Knut Haugland, 92, Norwegian explorer and last-surviving member of the Kon-Tiki expedition.

October 6 - Thor Heyerdahl (died 2002), Norwegian ethnographer and explorer, leader of the Kon-Tiki expedition.

Unlike Thor Heyerdahl's famed Kon-Tiki expedition, Willis's odysseys during the 1950's and 60's never served any scientific purpose.

It recounts Heyerdahl's experiences with the Kon-Tiki expedition, where he travelled across the Pacific Ocean on a balsa tree raft.

The theme of the Cape Town competition in 2007 celebrates the centennial of Scouting as well as the 60th anniversary of the Kon-Tiki expedition.

In the following year the Czech explorer and adventurer Eduard Ingris attempted to recreate the Kon-Tiki expedition on a balsa raft called Kantuta.

Henningsen became acquainted with Thor Heyerdahl during the liberation of Northern Norway, and in 1947 he was asked to join the Heyerdahl-led Kon-Tiki expedition.

Norwegian ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl hypothesized that the Pacific was settled by voyages from South America and set out to prove this with his Kon-Tiki expedition.

Not until fairly recently has the Norwegian cinema received international recognition, but as early as 1951 a documentary film of the Kon-Tiki expedition won an Oscar Academy Award.

Sept. 29, 1947: Members of the Kon-Tiki expedition crew wave from the homemade balsa wood and bamboo raft upon arrival in San Francisco, from the South Pacific.