Explorers  The Tangaroa raft on its way across the Pacific Ocean 08/05/2006 :: Following the footsteps of Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his Kon-Tiki expedition, the Tangaroa raft left port in Peru 28 April on its long journey across the Pacific Ocean. Heyerdahl crossed the world's largest ocean on his balsa wood raft in 1947, and now the Tangaroa's crew of six men, including Heyerdahl's grandson, will explore the same route. + More |
The first Explorers The First Norwegian Explorers Norway's coast is long and jagged, and its fjords cut far into the land. From early history, the sight and sound of the sea has beckoned to its inhabitants, who have made only a meagre living from the soil. Small wonder that when tilling ... + More |
Thor Heyerdahl Voyages into History The most widely known contemporary Norwegian "explorer" Thor Heyerdahl, has probed the cultures of our earliest forefathers. His quest was to discover more about the historical landscape, not the geographical one.
Heyerdahl was born in ... + More |
Roald Amundsen Roald Amundsen It is one of history's coincidences that Norway's two giants of polar exploration, Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen, were contemporaries. Amundsen was born in 1872, eleven years after Nansen, near the town of Sarpsborg in southeast ... + More |
Fridjof Nansen Fridtjof Nansen When Fridtjof Nansen was born in 1861, there were no new shores to discover. The outlines of the world map had been virtually completed; Nansen helped to fill in the details.
Fridtjof Nansen was a scientist, statesman and Nobel Peace ... + More |
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