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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

The hunt for Amelia Earhart's lost plane will continue next summer. A team will investigate an underwater "anomaly" detected off the coast of the tiny Pacific atoll Nikumaroro. The group thinks it ...

In 1937, American aviator Earhart vanished during her attempt to fly around the globe, leaving no trace. Now, a new expedition has set off for Nikumaroro, a tiny atoll in the Pacific, seeking to ...

Researchers from the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) may have discovered pieces of Amelia Earhart's long lost plane lurking off the coast of… ...

The new study re-examined measurements of several bones found on the Pacific island of Nikumaroro in ... might belong to one of 11 crew members presumed dead following a 1929 shipwreck, ...

Bones found in 1940 on Nikumaroro Island — a western Pacific island near Earhart’s projected flight path — were initially thought to belong to the pilot, as they were found alongside a ...

Robert Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic, has left Nikumaroro -- without finding firm evidence of Amelia Earhart or her Lockheed Electra. The team searching the island itself, however, may have ...