KIRIBATI - The bones of Amelia Earhart have been found. Along
with the bones of Gilligan and Ginger! Scientists at a DNA lab
on Kiribati, a small island in the southwest Pacific Ocean,
confirmed that bone fragments they found belong to American icon
Amelia Earhart, missing and presumed dead for the past 73 years.
Even more startling was the discovery of the bone fragments of
Gilligan… A group of Bone Hunters from Delaware, found the bone
fragments on Kiribati, which straddles the equator between
Hawaii and Australia. Jack Maloney, director of the Society for
Historic Bone Recovery, said that the island was on Earhart’s
flight path as she attempted to become the first woman to fly
around the world. The bone fragments were found this past summer
at what is believed to be an abandoned campsite on the island.
The campsite, where a partial skeleton (which was later lost and
never recovered) was found in 1940 by a British official
overseeing the island, has yielded other clues that a Western
woman may have spent ti