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Kon-Tiki man dies

December 28, 2009 Edition 2

OSLO: Knut Haugland, the last surviving member of the Kon-Tiki expedition that crossed the Pacific Ocean on a balsa wood raft, had died, the Norwegian press reported yesterday. He was 92.

Haugland, who died on Friday, was the radio operator on the expedition led by Thor Heyerdahl from Peru to Polynesia in 1947. The six-man raft, named after a South American sun god, made the 8 000km crossing in 101 days. - Sapa-AFP

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