Y/M/D | Description | Place |
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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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