Many people believed that the original people of the Pacific Islands had arrived from the West and North, but Heyerdahl began to believe that perhaps these settlers could have arrived from South America. Whilst living on Fatu Hiva Heyerdahl had become very familiar with the Trade Winds and started to develop a theory around the origins of the first settlers on the Pacific Islands. The young couple finally settled in a remote location on Fatu Hiva to begin their work.Īlthough Heyerdahl had studied zoology he had developed a keen interest in anthropology and alongside a keen interest in Polynesian culture. He married Liv Coucheron Torp the day before they departed. In 1936 Norwegian scientist Thor Heyerdahl found himself on a mission to the Marquesas Islands to study the local flora and fauna.
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