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Kickstart An Age-Old Mystery

Posted by Leslie Trew Magraw of National Geographic Traveler on September 12, 2012
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Celebrating the building of a new jeu, or men's house, in the village of Omadesep, Asmat. (Photograph by Carl Hoffman)

A week before Thanksgiving Day in 1961, Michael Rockefeller, scion of one the most powerful families in U.S. history, decided to swim for shore after his boat capsized off the southwest coast of Dutch New Guinea.

He was never seen again.