Thor Heyerdahl was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with backgrounds in sociology, botany, and geography. He gained fame for his 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition, where he sailed 8,000 km across the Pacific Ocean on a handmade raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands. His aim was to demonstrate that ancient peoples could sail long distances and establish contact between different cultures. In 2011, the Thor Heyerdahl archive was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World register, covering the years 1937 to 2002 and including a collection of photographs, diaries, private letters, plans, and articles.
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Meaning of the name - Thor
thunder, god of thunder
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Thor Heyerdahl belongs to the GI Generation group.
Place of Birth: Larvik
Place of Death: Colla Micheri
Cause of Death: brain cancer
Educated At: University of Oslo
Occupation: ethnographer | explorer | marine biologist | anthropologist | archaeologist | adventurer | film director | world traveler | historian | sailor | writer | screenwriter
Spouses: Yvonne Dedekam-Simonsen | Liv Rockefeller | Jacqueline Beer
Children: Thor Heyerdahl | Bjorn Heyerdahl
Awards Received: honorary doctorate of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv | honorary doctorate of the University of Oslo | Officer of the Order of the Sun of Peru | Patron’s Medal | Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav | Mungo Park Medal | Order of Merit for Distinguished Services | Order of Merit | Grand Officer of the Order of Wissam El Alaoui | Empowering award | Fridtjof Nansen Award for outstanding research, historical-philosophical class | Vega Medal | Peer Gynt Literary Award | Order of the Golden Ark | Order of the Sun of Peru | Lomonosov Gold Medal | Austrian Decoration for Science and Art | Order of Ouissam Alaouite | Order of St. Olav
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Ephemeris for October 6, 1914
Note: Moon position is location and time sensitive.| Planet | Position (Tropical, Western) | Transits on October 6, 2025 | Secondary Progressions for October 6, 2025 |
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| Sun | 12 Libra 35 | 13 Libra 41 | 4 Aquarius 39 |
| Moon | 9 Taurus 25 | 7 Aries 24 | 1 Gemini 32 |
| Mercury | 5 Scorpio 54 | 0 Scorpio 1 | 17 Aquarius 53 |
| Venus | 27 Scorpio 23 | 21 Virgo 6 | 18 Sagittarius 29 |
| Mars | 4 Scorpio 56 | 9 Scorpio 46 | 26 Capricorn 28 |
| Jupiter | 12 Aquarius 9 | 23 Cancer 8 | 27 Aquarius 35 |
| Saturn | 2 Cancer 58 | 27 Pisces 13 | 27 Gemini 3 |
| Uranus | 7 Aquarius 42 | 1 Gemini 6 | 11 Aquarius 12 |
| Neptune | 0 Leo 15 | 0 Aries 23 | 28 Cancer 54 |
| Pluto | 2 Cancer 13 | 1 Aquarius 22 | 0 Cancer 34 |
| Rahu | 3 Pisces 38 | 16 Pisces 44 | 27 Aquarius 45 |
| Ketu | 3 Virgo 38 | 16 Virgo 44 | 27 Leo 45 |
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