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Kon-Tiki itself was made of nine balsa would tree trunks lashed together with hemp rope.
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The male albino ferret has been named Kon-Tiki after a famous 1940s raft expedition across the Pacific Ocean.
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Their journey began when the Kon-Tiki was towed 50 miles out to sea by a Peruvian naval tug.
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Manager Becky Lloyd said Kon-Tiki was very tolerant despite all the treatment it had received for sores and ticks.
BBC: Floating ferret rescued off Anglesey's Beaumaris Pier
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The Kon-Tiki expedition was just the start of his efforts to shape it.
ECONOMIST: Thor Heyerdahl
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Best Foreign Language film nominees are: Amour (Austria), No (Chile), War Witch (Canada), A Royal Affair ( Denmark), and Kon-Tiki ( Norway).
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In 2006 Heyerdahl's 29-year old grandson Olav set out from Callao, Peru, to retrace the journey of the Kon-Tiki in his own boat.
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Kon-Tiki was the name of the balsa wood raft which was used to cross the Pacific Ocean in 1947 in a journey of 8, 000km (4, 900 miles).
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Three days later the Kon-Tiki struck a reef and the crew was beached on an uninhabited islet of Raroia Island -- 101 days and 4, 338 miles from Peru.
CNN: The Kon-Tiki: Crossing an ocean on balsa
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The Plastiki's name is wordplay off the "Kon-Tiki, " a balsa raft made famous by Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl, who in 1947 sailed the vessel from Peru to the Polynesian islands.
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Using balsa wood and other materials that would have been available in antiquity, Mr Heyerdahl built the Kon-Tiki, named after a mythical South American king said to have been fleeing for his life, and launched her from Peru.
ECONOMIST: Thor Heyerdahl
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There were plenty of durable classics lying around -- like Kon-Tiki, the story of Thor Heyerdahls excursion across the Pacific on a raft, and The Worst Journey in the World, about Robert Falcon Scotts disastrous expedition to the South Pole.
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