Nikumaroro, previously known as Kemins Island or Gardner Island, is a part of the Phoenix Islands, Kiribati, in the western Pacific Ocean. It is a remote, elongated, triangular coral atoll with profuse vegetation and a large central marine lagoon .

2023年3月2日 · Nikumaroro Atoll, also known as Gardner Island, is part of the Phoenix Islands and is situated about 3,300 km southwest of Hawaii and about 1,400 km northeast of Fiji. It is also about 1000 km north of Samoa.

2024年2月7日 · 2010: The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, or TIGHAR, begins an undersea search off Nikumaroro, formerly Gardner Island. 2015: TIGHAR begins another search at a deeper sea...

2012年7月2日 · In this scenario, Earhart missed her intended Pacific Ocean refueling site, Howland Island, but spotted Gardner Island (now called Nikumaroro), an uninhabited coral atoll nearby. She landed...

2013年7月23日 · Formerly known as Gardner Island, Nikumaroro, part of the Phoenix Islands in the western Pacific Ocean, may, in fact, be the final resting place of the aviation pioneers Amelia Earhart and Fred...

A tin has been found in the archives of the Royal New Zealand Air Force containing forty-one aerial photographs of Gardner Island (now Nikumaroro) taken just fifteen months after the Earhart disappearance and before the first official inhabitation of the island.

The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery presented a hypothesis that Earhart and Noonan found Gardner Island, uninhabited at the time, landed the Electra on a flat reef near the November 1929 wreck of freighter SS Norwich City, and …

2023年9月5日 · Bone fragments found on the island were tested over a decade ago and ultimately didn’t support the theory. TIGHAR still maintains that the Gardner Island theory is the most accurate.

2013年6月24日 · Gardner Island is the name of the island where some Earhart investigators believe the famed aviator spent her final days after her aircraft crashed in the South Pacific 76 years ago. It is now called Nikumaroro island.

Gardner Island is a largely ice-free island which lies about 3 km west of Broad Peninsula in the southern Vestfold Hills, in Prydz Bay on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica.