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Nearly seventy years ago Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and five companions sailed across nearly 7,000 kilometres of open ocean on a wooden raft from the coast of Peru to Raroia. The voyage of the Kon-tiki, as the raft was called, took nearly three and a half months. Its goal was to prove that the people of South America could have sailed across the Pacific Ocean and settled in the islands of Polynesia. This weekend, a team of 14 adventurers and scientists from nine countries, set off from Peru on the Kon-Tiki 2 - hoping to replicate part of this original journey. The expedition leader is Torgeir Higraff, who spoke to Newsday from 65 miles out at sea off the coast of Peru. (Photo: The Kon-Tiki2, off the coast of Peru. Credit: Kon-Tiki2 Expedition)