Kon-Ti ‧ ki ex ‧ pe ‧ di ‧ tion, the /kɒn ˈtiːki ekspəˌdɪʃ ə n $ kɑːn-/ BrE AmE
a journey made in 1947 by the Norwegian ↑ explorer , Thor Heyerdahl, and five other people. They sailed a ↑ raft , called the Kon-Tiki, from Callao in Peru to Tuamoto Island in the South Pacific Ocean in order to show that the ↑ Polynesian s had done this in earlier times and were therefore related to the ↑ Inca s .