Famous aviator Amelia Earhart, who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, has been part of a 90-year-long mystery.
During a 1937 attempt to fly around the world with navigator Fred Noonan, the pair disappeared without a trace.
Their last communications suggest they had been experiencing issues with radio transmission. These were sent en route to Howland Island, an uninhabited landmass in the central Pacific Ocean.
Nobody has ever found her plane. But recently, a team from the US’ Purdue University and the Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI) has headed to Nikumaroro Island, about 640 kilometres away from Howland Island, to revisit a popular theory about her final stop.
Here’s what that long-standing hypothesis says about the pilot’s possible death, as well as some other theories (ranging significantly in popularity and credibility):
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