easter island

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    Explorer Thor Heyerdahl & the Easter Island Heads (Moai)

    Wearing the blue shirt, Norwegian adventurer, and ethnographer, Thor Heyerdahl, excavated this Easter Island statue back in 1954-55. Heyerdahl became notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947, in which he sailed 8,000 km (5,000 mi) across the Pacific Ocean in a hand-built raft from South...