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July 28 -- Researchers plan to visit an uninhabited island in the Pacific next spring to search for clues that they hope will solve one of history's most enduring mysteries: the fate of aviator Amelia Earhart.
Researchers with the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, which goes by the name Tighar, are slated to go to Nikumaroro Island, about 1,800 miles south of Hawaii, in May and June to retrieve the personal effects of a castaway who died there, ABC News reported.
An Aviation Mystery photos Pilot Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937, during an around-the-world flight. A group of researchers plans to travel to Nikumaroro Island in May in hopes of finding Earhart's DNA on some belongings of a castaway who died there.
The Mystery of Amelia Earhart
Pilot Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937, during an around-the-world flight. A group of researchers plans to travel to Nikumaroro Island in May in hopes of finding Earhart's DNA on some belongings of a castaway who died there.
"We think we will be able to come back with DNA," Tighar Executive Director Ric Gillespie told ABC. The group has been doing archaeological work on the island, formerly called Gardner Island, since 2001.
Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and she was the first pilot of either gender to fly solo from Hawaii to California. She and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific on July 2, 1937, during an around-the-world flight.
Earhart's fate has fascinated people for decades. Tighar believes that Earhart's plane crashed off Nikimaroro Island and that she was able to survive there a short time before dying. But ABC points out that others have different ideas. For example, Elgen Long, a well-known Earhart historian, believes that the aviator's plane went down after running out of fuel near Howland Island, about 1,650 miles southwest of Hawaii.
Others think that Earhart's plane went down in the Marshall Islands, which were controlled by Japan, and that the Japanese held her as a prisoner. Still others hold that the disappearance was staged and the Earhart returned to the United States to live under an assumed name. (A blog posting on the Encyclopedia Britannica's Web site gives a brief overview of the Earhart theories.)
If members of the Tighar team succeed in recovering DNA, they will compare it against genetic material from a woman directly related to Earhart. The relative hasn't been publicly identified.
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