Amelia Earhart Died on Nikumaroro Island, Famous for It's Huge Coconut Crabs. Discovery Channel Reports Sexton Box Found
Nikumaroro Island Probably Last Home of Amelia Earhart - Discovery Channel Reports - Nikumaroro Island Home ToWorld's Largest Coconut Crabs
Partial skeletal bones were found in an earlier expedition in 1940. The coconut crabs that inhabit the island carried the remainder away. The bones found in the 1940 British exhibition have since lost.
According to the Discovery Channel, it is believed Amelia Earhart was stranded on Nikumaroro Island - reports the researchers from The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR.) This theory is developed from the items found around an old campsite on Nikumaroro Island which include women's compact and cosmetic items from Amelia's era.
Other items besides the cosmetics and a sexton were a women's shoe also from that time frame and a bottle.
Nikumaroro Island could have possibly been Amelia Earhart's final home if all of these findings are indeed hers.
Nikumaroro Island is some 300 miles southeast of Earhart's target destination, Howland Island and believed by the researchers to be her final home.
The tall and slender Amelia Earhart disappeared on July 2, 1937 while flying over the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to make a world's record of flying around the world at the equator.
Richard Gillespie, the executive director of TIGHAR's and author of the book "Finding Amelia," has been searching Nikumaroro Island along with his crew for evidence of Earhart.
Their feelings are that they have enough evidence to say that Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, made an emergency landing on Nikumaroro Island's flat coral reef. They believed they were stranded there and lived the rest of their lives on this island.
British Colonial Service officer Gerald Gallagher recovered a partial skeleton of a castaway on Nikumaroro in 1940. Gillespie said that those bones have since been lost. He also said the reason for the partial skeleton is due to the giant coconut crabs that carried many of the bones away.
Gallagher's archival record suggests that the bones were found in a remote area of the island, and they were in an area that was unlikely to have been seen during an aerial search.
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Post a CommentShe was probably lost like so many in the BIG ocean. People still get lost and disappear. http://vq-1.ahf.nmci.navy.mil/History%20Pages/21_death_co.html
This is a good article. I hope they find the aircraft soon. Just an fyi.. The device is a sextant.. its used by navigators to determine lines of position from two or more celestial bodies and determining a "fix" or position.
thats a big crab
Roz, most interesting. I have kept up with this story and it is now good to know these facts you presented here. Thanks.
This is interesting to hear.
That was really interesting and adds a few more clues to her disappearance.
This was a very interesting read. I'm sure that many people who watch the film would like to read this.
Fasinating information - remarkable women!
I once read a book about her and evidence that was thought to point to a different location. I'd have loved to have seen this show - assuming it was a show. Of course, I don't take everything the Discovery Channel says as Gospel.
There must be a way to find out for sure whether these things were hers. The bones are gone, no DNA...but thanks for the good reporting on an unsolved mystery.