Robert Ballard has directed his ship to Nikumaroro to solve the mystery. By Katie Kindelan. August 13, 2019, 8:03 AM. 1:45. Amelia Earhart in the cockpit of a plane. National Archives/HISTORY.

From his notes at the time: “She said that one time some white men came in a government ship and had people take them over to Nutiran (the northwestern end of Nikumaroro) in a canoe.

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 ...

It found debris from an old shipwreck. ... Dr. Ballard and Ms. Fundis confess that other clues pointing to Nikumaroro have left them with lingering curiosity about whether Earhart crashed there.

To do that, Ballard, a geologist, had to get to know Nikumaroro. He sent the ship five times around the island, which is four-and-a-half miles long, to map with multibeam sonar.

Robert Ballard has found the Titanic and other famous shipwrecks. ... Even those who doubt the Nikumaroro hypothesis think Dr. Ballard’s high-tech search at least may prove Earhart was never there.

University of New Hampshire's autonomous boat, Bathymetric Explorer and Navigator (BEN), finds lost shipwrecks. BEN maps the ocean floor in spots that are too shallow or dangerous for divers or ...

It depicts the SS Norwich City, which had been shipwrecked on a coral reef since 1929 off the coast of Nikumaroro (then called Gardner Island.) Parts of the shipwreck are still there !

In another update on the lost Amelia Earhart aircraft: Rick Gillespie of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) recently sent out an email with the subject line ...