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
s
Sailing Directions for Pacific Islands; for South America
Sailors’ Home, Norwegian
Samoa
Sardines
Scorpions
Sea slugs
Sea turtles
Seaweed
Shark powder
“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
T
Tahiti
Takume
“Tamara”
Tane-Matarau
Tangaroa
Taranga
Tefaunui
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
U
United Nations
Uppsala University
V
Varoa Tikaroa
Viking ships
Virakocha
Void, Gerd
W
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
Y
Yacht Club, Callao
Z
Zarate
Zoo-plankton