I just read a fantastic Amelia Earhart article by Richard Pyle of the Associated Press. In it, Pyle talks about how a diary from a reporter stationed at Howland Island yields new clues to what Earhart’s final airborne hours must have been like.
Of course no one really knows what happened to Earhart on July 2, 1937, but Pyle’s article talks about a bunch of different distress sginals that were picked up by people around the world and about how various expeditions have shown that Earhart might have ended up on an atoll called Gardner Island. Discoveries on the island include a campsite with signs of food remains, a partial human skeleton, and part of a woman’s shoe.
I’ve never read any in-depth reports about Amelia Earhart before, so I don’t know how new the info in this article is. Still, I think it’s pretty amazing that people are putting all this time and money into finding out what happened to this woman 70 years ago. I mean, if they find out where Earhart eventually ended up, what would that change in the grand scheme of things?