Island search may solve Earhart mystery

A team of researchers is hoping to inspect a mysterious object sitting at the edge of a lagoon on a remote Pacific island, which they believe could be the wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s plane

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Lockheed Model 10-E Electra


RECORD ATTEMPT
Amelia Earhart was U.S. aviation pioneer, who was attempting first circumnavigation of globe

Map detail

May 20, 1937
Departs Oakland, California

Jun 10
Dakar,
Senegal

Jun 29
Darwin,
Australia

Jun 17
Karachi, Pakistan
Hawaii, U.S.

Jun 1
Miami

Howland Island, U.S.
Solomon Islands
Pacific Ocean
Planned route
Lae, Papua New Guinea

1,000km
600 miles
3km
2 miles

Nikumaroro (Part of island nation of Kiribati)

Satellite imagery of “Taraia Object” shows what could be small aircraft

Taraia Object

Jul 2: Earhart and Fred Noonan (her navigator) disappear while trying to reach Howland Island


Team probes theory that Earhart veered off course, landed on Nikumaroro and died a castaway

Source: Archaeological Legacy Institute
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