Raroia Reef, Tuamotu Archipelago, Aug. 7 (delayed) - The Kon-Tiki Raft is on the reef here. The six of us who were its crew are safe and unhurt on an uninhabited island.
This marks the conclusion - and, as such, the success- of our expedition that set out April 28 from Peru to drift across the Pacific, as pre-Inca voyagers are believed to have drifted from South America to Polynesia.
In the nearly fifteen weeks we have made the drift of more than 4,000 miles in the flow of the Peruvian (Humboldt) and South Equatorial Currents.
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