Kon-Tiki

by Thor Heyerdahl

  Rani

  Rapa Iti

  Rapa Nui

  Raroia

  Rarotonga

  Rations

  Ray, giant

  Remora

  Reveredo, General

  Rjukan

  Roggeveen

  Rongo

  Rongo-rongo

  Rörholt, Björn

  Rubber boat; Kon-Tiki’s dinghy

  Russians in Norway

  s

  Sailing Directions for Pacific Islands; for South America

  Sailors’ Home, Norwegian

  Samoa

  Sardines

  Scorpions

  Sea slugs

  Sea turtles

  Seaweed

  Shark powder

  Sharks; blue; brown whale

  “Short-ears”

  Siberia

  Skua

  Snake mackerel

  Snakes

  South Equatorial Current

  South Sea islands

  Spaniards

  Squid (cuttlefish)

  Starfish

  Steering of raft on river; of Kon-Tiki

  Stone Age

  Sun-Tiki

  Sweden

  Swedish-Finnish Amazon expedition

  Sweet potato

  Swordfish

  T

  Tahiti

  Takume

  “Tamara”

  Tane-Matarau

  Tangaroa

  Taranga

  Tefaunui

  Tei Tetua

  Teka

  Te-Pito-te-Henua

  Tepiuraiarii Teriifaatau

  Terai Mateata

  Teriieroo

  “Thor I”

  Tiahuanaco

  Tikaroa

  Tiki

  “Tirpitz”

  Titicaca, Lake

  Tongatabu

  Topakino

  Torstein, see Raaby

  Trade wind

  Trondheim

  Tuamotu group

  Tubuai group

  Tunny

  Tupak Yupanqui

  Tupuhoe

  Tupuhoe-Itetahua

  U

  United Nations

  Uppsala University

  Urukehu

  V

  Varoa Tikaroa

  Viking ships

  Virakocha

  Void, Gerd

  W

  War Department, American; foreign liaison section; Geographical Research Committee

  Washington

  Water Street

  Water supply

  Watzinger, Herman; meets author in New York, helps to organize expedition in U.S. and flies with him to Ecuador; waits for timber at Guayaquil; injured at Lima; captures Gempylus pursues sea turtle; technical chief on raft; measures squalls with anemometer; falls overboard and is rescued by Haugland; sights land; attacked by eels; dances the hula; he and Haugland treat sick boy with penicillin; receives Polynesian name

  Weather Bureau, U.S.

  Whale Shark

  Whales

  Wilhelm

  Y

  Yacht Club, Callao

  Z

  Zarate

  Zoo-plankton