Amelia Earhart's World Flight



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Timeline

Y/M/D Description Place
1937/06/00 Amelia Earhart plans her around the world flight from under a carob tree in her yard. Amelia Earhart House, Los Angeles
1937/06/01 Earhart and Noonan takeoff from Miami and fly east along an equatorial route.
1937/06/29 Earhart and Noonan arrive in New Guinea.
1937/07/02 Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan depart for tiny Howland Island, 2,556 miles from New Guinea. They disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. Howland Island, Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument
1940/00/00 On the island of Nikumaroro, a work detail finds a human skull, human bones, a shoe thought to be a woman's, a box made for a Brandis Navy Surveying Sextant manufactured in 1918 and a bottle of Benedictine. Phoenix Islands Protected Area, Phoenix Islands
1941/00/00 The remains found on Nikumaroro are analyzed by Dr D W Hoodless, head of the Central Medical School in Fiji. Forensic analysis concludes that the bones belonged to a male. The bones themselves have since been lost.
2018/03/07 After examining bone measurements made by Hoodless, Richard Jantz, director emeritus of U of T's Forensic Anthropology Center releases his findings: In the case of the Nikumaroro bones, the only documented person to whom they may belong is Amelia Earhart. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville

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