Knut Haugland, the last surviving member of the 1947 Kon-Tiki raft expedition, has died in Norway.

He was 92.

Mr Haugland was one of six crewmen who crossed the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in the Kon-Tiki expedition.

He first came to prominence as a member of the Norwegian Resistance Movement during World War II.

He was decorated by the British for his part in helping disrupt Nazi Germany's plans to create heavy water for its nuclear weapons program.

After the war he was recruited by the anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl as a radio operator for the Kon-Tiki expedition.

The cruise was made on a raft constructed from traditional materials and traversed 8,000 kilometres across the Pacific from Peru, demonstrating that South Americans in pre-Colombian times could have settled Polynesia.