Okay, here we go. Replying to Michael Hall.
How did EA and FN die?
Let's start by getting her initials right. Amelia Earhart was often known as AE. It's not uncommon for people to reverse them as you did, probably because her name, phonetically, sounds like Emilia Airhart.
It is clear that they were not exactly alive and kicking in October, so they would of had a very short existance on the island...
Not necessarily. Read
Bevington's JournalA castaway at the Seven Site would have no way of knowing what was going on more than two miles away at the west end of the atoll. The only time Bevington was anywhere near the Seven site was on the first day when he walked around the island with a few Gilbertese delegates. Their route took them along the ocean beach in front of the Seven Site but by that time they were desperate for water, having brought none with them and grossly underestimated the size of the island. They were intent only on getting back to the west end. I can tell you from experience that, due to beachfront vegetation and the noise of wind and surf, someone at the Seven Site would not see or hear a marching brass band if it passed along the beach.
I have seen the posts about toxic fish death, dehydration etc etc. But I feel two able bodied adults "without injury" could have avoided the toxic fish death theory, to my knowledge there are not that many fish of edible size will kill you.
You're wrong. See
Ciguatera.
So onto dehydration. The island is tropical in nature (I assume) a plentyful of rain showers are likely, it does not take a genuis to make a water trap from various natural resources. The island has coconuts? Another source of fluid.
Rainfall at Nikumaroro is sporadic. That's why the colony failed. There are ways to collect rainwater after a shower but I'd be interested to hear how you would fashion a water trap from natural resources. In October 1937 Maude and Bevington counted 111 coconut trees on the island. In my experience, it's a rare Westerner who can climb a coconut palm. Try this experiment. Buy a coconut at the grocery store that has fluid in it (shake it and you can hear the fluid). Take it home and try get it open without losing the fluid. No fair using tools other than a pocket knife and hammer or hatchet.
So is the fact they met a fate by injuries sustained by the landing more likely? A broken leg would soon succumb to infection? A head injury left untreated?
There is little talk of FN? Did he not make it ashore, being hurled around the back of the plane on landing making his demise more swift.
Noonan was more likely riding in the copilot seat.
My guess is their existance on the island was very short lived and the crabs did the clean up job (sorry to be graphic) I am talking a time scale of no more than 2-3 weeks.
My guess (and it's only a guess based on my own interpretation of what we've found at the Seven Site) is that Earhart survived long enough to:
a) Figure out that the area we now call the Seven Site was the best place on the island to hang out.
b) Develop systems for collecting a purifying water.
c) Develop ways to catch fish, birds and even turtles.
d) Consume the amount of food evidenced in bones we found in the several fire features.
In my opinion she survived for a matter of months, not weeks.
However if there was a burial site, and it was that of a women (AE?) maybe FN outlived AE and did the hounourable thing as somebody had to bury her?.
The bones found unburied in 1940 appear to be female. If a man and a woman die on an uninhabited island they probably don't expire at the same moment. The one who dies first may or may not get buried, depending upon the circumstances. The one who dies second, by definition, does not get buried.