A Norwegian Holiday (Part 8)
<p>Thor Heyerdahl was a Norwegian explorer, writer and anthropologist. Born in Larvik, Norway, in 1914, he studied zoology and geography in Oslo University. During the time when he was in Oslo University, he became interested in Polynesia and studied about it in depth on his own.</p>
<p>Soon after graduating from university in 1937, he went to <strong><em>Fatu Hiva</em></strong>, one of the <strong>Polynesian islands in the South Pacific</strong>, ostensibly to study the flora and fauna of that remote island. It was during his arduous, one-year-long stay there in a remote, uninhabited valley with his newly-married wife (whom he had married just the day before he left for Polynesia!) that he began to postulate about ancient trans-oceanic contacts between South America and the remote Pacific islands in Polynesia. He postulated that the Polynesian people originated in faraway South America and that it was possible, even in ancient times, for these people to cross the Pacific Ocean to reach these remote islands.</p>
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