A photograph from a 2009 expedition in the Pacific Ocean around Nikumaroro Island — a remote atoll between New Zealand and Hawaii — appears to show an engine cover buried underwater that could ...

Then, last year, scientific analysis shared with MailOnline revealed a series of hidden letters and numbers etched on an aluminium panel which washed up on Nikumaroro Island in the western Pacific ...

Pettigrew, who has participated in previous expeditions to Nikumaroro, where some believe Earhart landed her plane and died, said he is aware of the “frustrating history” of the decades-long ...

"In the case of the Nikumaroro bones, the only documented person to whom they may belong is Amelia Earhart," the study states. Amelia Earhart poses in front of a plane. HISTORY is airing the two ...

Now, after decades of finding the nearly unfindable, Ballard will set a course Aug. 7 for Nikumaroro, the uninhabited Pacific island south of nowhere, and attempt to solve the mystery of aviator ...

Ballard, who is president of Ocean Exploration Trust and a National Geographic explorer-at-large, is focusing the search on the remote island of Nikumaroro, a coral atoll 1,200 miles from the ...

Many attempts have been made to discover the famed aviator's fate, but never with the technological tools at Robert Ballard's disposal. Best known for his 1985 discovery of the Titanic, National ...

TIGHAR researchers identified debris where they think Earhart's plane went down. Aug. 18, 2012— -- Forensic imaging specialists have found what looks like a wheel and other landing gear off ...

One speculation supported by Jantz is Earhart found herself a castaway on Nikumaroro Island, located east of Papua New Guinea. Three years after her disappearance, in 1940, a working party ...

This summer, the explorer who discovered the shipwreck of the Titanic went in search of Amelia Earhart's lost plane. Two weeks and a multimillion-dollar search later, Robert Ballard said he has ...

According to one theory, Earhart did not drown in the Pacific but instead crash landed on Nikumaroro, a remote atoll in the Pacific. Environmental Graffiti: In 1940, researchers discovered a ...