IKONOS (1m) Satellite Image of Nikumaroro Island (Gardner
Island) in the Republic of Kiribati (Copyright © GeoEye and
Courtesy of Satellite Imaging Corporation. All Rights Reserved.)
New evidence reported by The International Group for Historic
Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), a non-profit foundation promoting
aviation archaeology and historic aircraft preservation shows
that Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan possibly
landed and eventually died on Gardner Island, now Nikumaroro in
the Republic of Kiribati. TIGHAR concluded that 57 of the 120
signals reported at the time are credible, triangulating
Earhart’s position to have been Nikumaroro Island. Reports show
that Amelia Earhart radioed their position, then landed on a
reef at uninhabited Gardner Island, a small coral atoll now
known as Nikumaroro Island that might have caused caused the
“Electra” airliner to be swept away and that they lived for a
time as castaways only to eventually perish on the uninhabited
island. Other evidence and artifacts found