Word: kon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Davis has accomplished these things: survived the worst gale to hit New Zealand waters in 30 years; become the first person ever to sail across the Pacific from New Zealand to Peru in mid-winter; and partly refuted or at least raised serious doubts of the validity of the Kon-Tiki theory, which at the time was called a major anthropoloical achievement...
...Miru's trip refuted or at least raised serious doubt as to the validity of the Kon-Tiki theory--that the Polynesians came originally from Peru...
Davis contends that the reverse is true: the Polynesians sailed to Peru. To prove it, the Miru journeyed engineless 6,750 miles from New Zealand to Peru via a current that flowed in exactly the opposite direction to the one used by the raft Kon-Tiki. This part of the voyage took 67 storm-tossed days...
Davis set sail from Wellington, New Zealand, on May 31, 1952, to prove that Polynesian natives might have sailed to Peru in ancient times. The raft sail of the Kon-Tiki proved the converse; that Peruvian natives might have sailed to the Polynesian islands...
Davis, whose hobby is Polynesian anthropology, decided to sail from his home in New Zealand to Pern and test a thesis: That the route the raft "Kon-tiki" took from Peru to the Polynesian Islands was actually a two-way thoroughfare...