Agurto, see Alvarez
Ahnne, M. Frédéric
Air Force laboratory
Air Material Command
Alvarez, Captain Agurto Alexis
Amazon expedition
Ambjörg
American military attaché in Ecuador
Amundsen, Christian
Andes
Angatau
Angelo
Antarctic
Ants
Arabia
Army supply department
Asia
Atlantis
Australia
Aztecs
Bahr, Consul General
Bajkov, Dr. A. D.
Balsa rafts
Balsa trees, wood, logs; see also Kon-Tiki
Bamboos, giant
Bandidos
Bank of Norway
Barnacles
Behre, Professor
Bengt, see Danielsson
Berg, Egil
“Big-ears”
Bird dance
Blue shark
Blue whale
Bonito
Boobies
Bottle gourd
British Columbia
British Military Mission in Washington
Brooklyn
Brown shark
Bryhn, Consul General
Buchwald, Don Federico von; Don Gustavo von
Bustamante y Rivero, Don José (President of Peru)
Cachalot
Callao
Canary Islands
Cari
Carl
Caucasus
Centerboards
Central America
Chicago, university at
Chile
China
Christensen, Lars
Coca plant
Coconut, coconut palm
Coelenterates
Cohen, Dr. Benjamin
Colossi on Easter Island
Columbia University
Columbus
Cook, Captain
Cook Islands
Copepods
Copra
Coquimbo Valley
“Cowrie”
Crosby, Bing
Cuevas, Frank
Cumulo-nimbus
Currents: Humboldt South Equatorial; crosscurrents off Peruvian coast; toward Central America; around Galapagos Islands
Cuttlefish (squid)
Dangerous (or Low) Archipelago
Danielsson, Bengt; joins expedition at Lima; takes seventy-three books with him on raft; pursues sea turtle; as steward is responsible for rations; restricted to special provisions by way of experiment; concussion in stranding of raft; salvages kitchen utensils; goes as envoy to chief on Raroia; dances the hula; receives Polynesian name
Disney, Walt
Diving basket
Dolphin (dorado)
Dolphin (toothed whale)
Easter Island
Ecuador
Eels
Egypt
Erik, see Hesselberg
Eskimos
Explorers Club
“Eye of heaven”
“Eye which looks toward heaven”
Fangahina
Fatu Hiva
Fenua Kon-Tiki
Finnmark
Fire-Tiki
Flying fish
Foreign liaison section of War Department
Fred Olsen Line
Freuchen, Peter
Frigate birds
Galapagos Islands
Gempylus
Germans invade Norway
Germany
Gestapo
Giant bamboos
Giant ray
Glover, Admiral
“Golden navel”
Great Bear
Great Rapa
Greenland
Greenwich Village
Guardian Rios
Guayaquil
Guayas, Rio
Haakon, King
Hal, see Kempel
Harpoon
Haskin, Colonel
Haugland, Knut; war experiences; agrees to join expedition; arrives in New York; at Lima; experiments with radio aerials; sights whale shark; radio under difficulties; has a swim with a shark; establishes radio contacts; rescues Watzinger; goes ashore on Angatau; he and Watzinger treat sick boy with penicillin; receives Polynesian name
Haumata
Hawaii
Head-hunters
Heavy water sabotage
Herman, see Watzinger
Hermit crabs
Hesselberg, Erik; agrees to join expedition; coming by sea from Oslo to Panama; arrives at Lima; takes position of raft; harpoons whale shark; occupations on board; has idea of diving basket; develops photographs; navigates raft along Angatau reef; attacked by eels becomes a hula dancer; receives Polynesian name
Hiti
Hotu Matua
Hula dancing
Humboldt Current
Iguanas
Illa-Tiki
Ilo
Incas
India
Indians (South American); see also Incas
Indonesia
Indonesian race
Ipomoea batatas
Japan
Jellyfish
Johannes
Jorge
Kama
Kane
Kayak
Kempel, Harold
Kimi
Kirkenes
Knut, see Haugland
Kongo
Kon-Tiki
Kon-Tiki (raft) construction; pessimism of foreign observers, and Norwegian seamen; trial trip in harbor; christened; towed out to sea; performance in heavy sea; logs’ absorption of water; strain on ropes; course changes; daily life on raft; tropical garden on board ; invaded by small crabs; floating aquarium under raft; comic appearance at sea; masters heavy storm; weaker in joints after storm; stranding on Raroia reef; brought into lagoon; towed to Tahiti; shipped on board “Thor I”
Kon-Tiki Island
Ku
Kukara
Kumara potato; see sweet potato
Kura
Lagenaria vulgaris
Lamour, Dorothy
Latacunga
Lewis, Colonel
LI 2 B
Lianas
Lie, Trygve
Lima
Little Rapa
“Long-ears”
Lono
Los Angeles
Low (or Dangerous) Archipelago
Lumsden, Colonel
Machete knives
Malaya
Malayan peoples
Mangareva
“Maoae”
Maroake
Marquesas Islands
Mata-Kite-Rani
Mata-Rani
Maui
Mauri
Mayas
Melanesian peoples
Meteorological Institute
Mexico
Military Mission in Washington, British
Monoliths; see Easter Island
Munthe of Morgenstierne, Wilhelm von
Munthe-Kaas, Colonel Otto
Murmansk
National Geographic Society
Naval Hydrographic Institute
Naval War School (Peru)
“Navel, golden”
“Navel of the islands”
New York
New Zealand
Nieto, Manuel
Nordmark
Northwest Indians
Norway
Norwegian ambassador; Embassy
Norwegian consul general in Ecuador in Peru
Norwegian military attaché in Washington; assistant
Norwegian Sailors’ Home
Notodden
Octopus
Oslo
Ossining
Ouia Valley
Oviedo
Pae-pae
Palenque, Rio
Palms, see coconut
Panama
Pani
Papa
Papeete
Papeno Valley
Parrots; Kon-Tiki parrot
Penicillin
Pentagon building
Peru
Peruvian air minister; Foreign Ministry; minister of marine; naval attaché in Washington; President
Petrels
Phyto-plankton
Pilot fish
Pitcairn Island
Pizarro
Plankton
Pleiades
Pole Star
Polynesia, Polynesians
“Polynesia and America: A Study of Prehistoric Relations”
Polynesian Society
Porpoises,
Potatoes
President of Peru
Primus stove
Puka Puka
Pura
Pyramids
Quartermaster general’s laboratory
Quevedo
Quito
Ra
Raaby, Torsteinwar experiences agrees to join expedition; arrives in New York; sent by air to Lima; experiments with radio aerials; fish in sleeping bag; pursues sea turtle; radio under difficulties; restricted to special provisions by way of experiment; adventures with dolphins establishes radio contacts; sleeping bag goes overboard; sends out radio messages just before stranding; dances the hula; receives Polynesian name
Radio
Radio Amateur League of America
Rainbow belt
Rangi
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
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
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
United Nations
Uppsala University
Urukehu
Varoa Tikaroa
Viking ships
Virakocha
Void, Gerd
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
Yacht Club, Callao
Zarate
Zoo-plankton