In just a month’s time, one of the greatest modern mysteries could finally be solved – the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.
Scientists are about to embark on an ambitious expedition to Nikumaroro, a five-mile-long island in the western Pacific Ocean.
There, they will investigate the Taraia Object, a ‘visual anomaly’ in a lagoon that they think could be Earhart’s missing Lockheed Electra 10E plane.
Amelia Earhart was flying the aircraft with navigator Fred Noonan when it vanished near Howland Island on July 2, 1937.
At the time, she was attempting to become the first woman to complete a circumnavigational flight of the globe.
What exactly went wrong, and where her plane landed, has been a mystery ever since – but experts think they’re on the verge of finally solving it.
Richard Pettigrew, executive director of the Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI), is part of the expedition team traveling to Nikumaroro Island.
‘Finding Amelia Earhart’s Electra aircraft would be the discovery of a lifetime,’ he said.
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