The history of aviation is riddled with mysteries, but there are two which stand out—the disappearance of American aviator ...

The aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared on July 2, 1937, while attempting to circumnavigate the globe. What happened to her ...

Laurie Rubin Ric Gillespie has made ten trips to the South Pacific island of Nikumaroro in search of evidence to support his theory that Amelia Earhart landed here on her ill-fated flight and ...

“We found a piece of Amelia Earhart’s aircraft.” The evidence was engrossing, if not entirely convincing. Over the years, ...

It was also the centerpiece of a History Channel documentary, Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence ... the sea off Gardner Island (now known as Nikumaroro). This prompted a State Department ...

We are running north and south,” Amelia Earhart radioed ... to remote Gardner Island (now called Nikumaroro), south of Howland, where he believes Earhart landed on the reef-flat.