Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) was a Norwegian explorer, author and adventurer. In 1947, he sailed 8,000 km across the Pacific Ocean in a hand-built craft to demonstrate that ancient peoples could have made such long journeys with technology of the time.
Glossary of Galapagos
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- Caldera
- Carapace
- Cell
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF)
- Chemosynthesis
- Chromosomes
- Classification
- Climate change
- Cocos Plate
- Colonisation
- Composite cone volcano
- Conglomerate
- Conservation
- Conservationists
- Consumers
- Continuous (genetic variation)
- Convection currents
- Courtship
- Critically endangered
- Cromwell Current
- Crux point
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