Nikumaroro Island

Seems like fans of Earhart (and maybe of small, desolate Pacific Islands in general) have taken to Google to express their feelings about Nikumaroro Island. There's some favorable reviews, and some on the more average end. Not all of them have to do with Earhart, but there's a gratuitous amount of bone ...

The new study re-examined measurements of several bones found on the Pacific island of Nikumaroro in 1940. Researcher Richard Jantz wrote that what he found “strongly supports the conclusion that the Nikumaroro bones belonged to Amelia Earhart.” The details were published in a research article ...

“This analysis reveals that Earhart is more similar to the Nikumaroro bones than 99 percent of individuals in a large reference sample,” Jantz said in the ... Later search efforts on Nikumaroro turned up a wealth of other suggestive artifacts, including a sextant box that might have been Noonan's, part of a ...

In 1940, human bones found on Nikumaroro — an island in the western Pacific Ocean where Earhart could have crash-landed and survived — were suspected to be Earhart's. Upon examining the remains in 1941, Dr. D.W. Hoodless of Central Medical School in Fiji determined that they belonged to a ...

The study re-examined measurements of several bones found on the Pacific island of Nikumaroro, about 2,900 km southwest of Hawaii, in 1940. Researcher Richard Jantz wrote that what he found “strongly supports the conclusion that the Nikumaroro bones belonged to Amelia Earhart”. The details were ...

A new study published in Forensic Anthropology by Richard Jantz claims that a set of human remains found on Nikumaroro Island are likely the bones of the pioneering aviator. If true, this is an exciting development. As the identification of the remains of Richard III illustrated, solving important historical ...

The group is single-handedly responsible for the bulk of viral Amelia Earhart headlines over the past decade. TIGHAR's hypothesis rests on the assumption that bones recovered from an island about 350 nautical miles south of Howland named Nikumaroro Island (but known at the time as Gardner Island), ...