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Kollective Technology Inc, formerly Kontiki Inc, [1] is a cloud-based, software-defined enterprise content delivery (SD-ECDN) company headquartered Bend, Oregon, in the United States. Operating in 190 countries with locations across America, Europe and APAC, it employs 117 people around the world and provides its services to over 135 customers.
The Kon-Tiki expedition was a 1947 journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands, led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl. The raft was named Kon-Tiki after the Inca god Viracocha, for whom "Kon-Tiki" was said to be an old name.
Contiki is a global tour company that caters to 18 to 35-year-olds, offering over 350 different tours in over 75 countries in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, North America, South America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. [1]
Cotton Tree Post Office in the 1930s. Cotton Tree has its own post office located in King Street since the 1930s. The suburb consists of a beach, a river mouth, several restaurants and cafes, lawn bowls club, RSL club, surf club, [14] Swan's rugby club, [15] library, [16] child care centre, resorts, homes, units, Weir's surf shop, olympic swimming pool and numerous other shops, offices and ...
Maroochydore State School, 2020. Maroochydore State School is a government primary (Early Childhood-6) school for boys and girls at 56–68 Primary School Court (11] [12] In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 256 students with 28 teachers (21 full-time equivalent) and 25 non-teaching staff (18 full-time equivalent). [13]
Like the Kon-Tiki, Rahiti Tane and Tupac Yupanqui were built from balsawood transported from Ecuador to SIMA, the Peruvian Army's shipyard in Callao, Lima. However, the Kon-Tiki2 rafts were different in several respects: Kon-Tiki had a rudder, while the Kon-Tiki2 rafts were steered by guara boards which allowed the rafts to be sailed in ...
Kon-Tiki is a Norwegian documentary film about the Kon-Tiki expedition led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947, released in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark in 1950, followed by the United States in 1951.
The Kon-Tiki Museum on the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo, Norway houses vessels and maps from the Kon-Tiki expedition, as well as a library with about 8,000 books. The Thor Heyerdahl Institute was established in 2000. Heyerdahl himself agreed to the founding of the institute and it aims to promote and continue to develop Heyerdahl's ideas and ...