![]() ![]() They spent one month in the house of a Tahitian leader, where they learned how to survive in natural conditions prior to moving to the Marquesas Islands to spend a year isolated from civilization on the island of Fatu Hiva. In early 1936, Heyerdahl married Liv Coucheron-Torp, and immediately they left Norway for Tahiti. Access to Kroepelien's library enabled Heyerdahl to do a private study outside the university, and eventually would determine his choice of career as a researcher and traveler. It was also there that he met Björn Kroepelien, a Norwegian adventurer who had once lived on Tahiti during the First World War, and had amassed a large collection of artifacts and documents related to Polynesian history and culture. ![]() He became interested very early in zoology, then in geography, and in 1933 he would study both at the University of Oslo. Thor Heyerdahl was born on Octoin Larvik, Norway, the son of a local brewer. ![]()
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