<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl" id="mw1w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Thor Heyerdahl">Thor Heyerdahl</a>'s <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochroma_pyramidale" id="mw2A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ochroma pyramidale">balsa wood</a> raft, the <i id="mw2Q"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki" id="mw2g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kon-Tiki">Kon-Tiki</a></i>, smashes into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reef" id="mw2w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Reef">reef</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raroia" id="mw3A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Raroia">Raroia</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuamotus" id="mw3Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tuamotus">Tuamotu Islands</a> after a 101-day, <span about="#mwt132" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"Convert","href":"./Template:Convert"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"7000"},"2":{"wt":"km"},"3":{"wt":"mi"}},"i":0}}]}' id="mw3g" typeof="mw:Transclusion">7,000 kilometres (4,300</span><span about="#mwt132" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><span about="#mwt132">mi)</span> journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.<sup about="#mwt137" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{"name":"arrlDec1947"},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-arrlDec1947-26"}}' id="cite_ref-arrlDec1947_26-0" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_7#cite_note-arrlDec1947-26" id="mw3w" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 26;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw4A">[26]</span></a></sup>