Kon Tiki Island

Kon Tiki Island (50˚02'00" 127˚22'00" N entrance to Kyuquot Sd, just E of Walters I). This name was adopted in 1984 after being proposed by Kaare Halvorsen, the island’s owner. He was apparently associated with the 1947 expedition in which Thor Heyerdahl and a crew of five men sailed a raft from S America to French Polynesia. The name of the raft was the Kon-Tiki, one of the ancient names of the Incan sun god Viracocha. Heyerdahl also gave the name Kon Tiki to the tiny islet off Raroia, in...

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