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Heyerdahl, Thor

LC control no.n 79022279
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingHeyerdahl, Thor
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Variant(s)Kheĭerdal, Tur
Hejerdal, Tor
הירדאל, תור
Hayrdāl, S̲awr
Hīrdāl, S̲awr
Hayrdāl, S̲ūr
هيردال، ثور
Birth date1914-10-06
Death date2002-04-18
Place of birthLarvik (Norway)
Place of deathItaly
Profession or occupationEthnographer
Explorers Archaeologists
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inPå jakt efter paradiset ... 1938.
Aku-Aku, dhe ishulli i Gjigandëve, 1971: v. 1, t.p. (Tor Hejerdal)
Washington post WWW site, 04-19-2002 (Thor Heyerdahl, 87, Norwegian explorer and archaeologist, d. Apr. 18 at a hospital near Colla Michari, Italy; b. in Larvik, Norway)
Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1914)
Wikipedia, Oct. 21, 2013 (Thor Heyerdahl; born October 6, 1914 in Larvik, Norway; died April 18, 2002; Colla Micheri; Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a background in biology, zoology, botany and geography. He became notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947, in which he sailed 8,000 km (5,000 mi) across the Pacific Ocean in a self-built raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands)
   <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl>
Kun Tīkī, [1968 or 1969]: t.p. (ثور هيردال = S̲awr Hayrdāl)
Associated languagenor eng