Struggling with easterly winds while fishing, he lost faith in the then accepted belief that Polynesia had been settled by unidentified voyagers from Southeast Asia, and soon became convinced that the islands were settled by visitors from South America and Easter Island instead. Born in Larvik, Norway, and trained as a zoologist, in 1937, he and his wife, Liv, moved to Tahiti, living on the isolated island of Fatuhiva in the Marquesas Group, doing research on the origins of the animal life on the island. After each of these explorations, Heyerdahl wrote books about the adventures, and was in the public eye.
Later expeditions from Egypt towards North America in the reed rafts Ra, and Ra II, gave his theory that early Egyptians may have visited Mexico some credible argument. This expedition, on a balsa raft named Kon-Tiki, allowed him to cross the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia, a distance of 4,300 miles in just 101 days.
His 1947 expedition proved his theory possible that early South Americans could have settled the Pacific Ocean area.
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