Earhart Project

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Background Information

• Amelia Earhart
• Fred Noonan
• Gerald Gallagher

Around the World!

• Lockheed Electra 10E Special - NR16020
• Flight Planning
• Disaster at Luke Field

The Fatal Flight

• Delayed in Lae
• Preparations to take off
• Lae to Nightfall
• Nightfall to Ship In Sight
• "We are on the line 157 337"
• Landing on the Reef?

Searches without Rescue

• Coast Guard search
• Navy search
• Search by a Private Yacht--the voyage of the Yankee.

Post-loss Radio Messages

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• Post-loss Radio Messages--Overview
• July 2
• July 3
• July 4
• July 5

On Gardner / Nikumaroro

1937-1938

• New Zealand Survey (1938)
• U.S.S. Bushnell Survey (1939)

Colonization (1939)

• Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme

Bones: Lost and Found and Lost

• Floyd Kilt's Stories about the Bones
• Materials Collected by Gallagher
  • Bones
  • Sextant Box
  • Remnants of shoes
  • Corks on brass chains
  • A Brandy Bottle
  • Inverting eye piece?
• Shipment of the Bones to Fiji
• Examination and Description of the Recovered Material
• Disappearance of the Recovered Materials
• Who Died on Niku?

Subsequent Events

• Coast Guard LORAN Station (1944-1946?)
• Floyd Kilt's Stories about the Bones
• The Bones File Surfaces (1997)

TIGHAR Research

Background on TIGHAR

• About TIGHAR
• The Niku Hypothesis
• Research Methods
• Earhart Project Advisory Committee

TIGHAR on Nikumaroro

• Niku I (1989)
• Niku II (1991)
• Niku IIIP (1996)
• Niku III (1997)
• Niku IIIIP (1999)
• Niku IIII (2001)
• Niku VP (WOF--2003)
• Niku V (2007)
• The Island (Gardner/Nikumaroro)
  • Location and Geology of Nikumaroro
  • Maps of Nikumaroro
  • Place Names on Nikumaroro
  • Flora
  • Fauna
    • Marine Life
    • Land Animals
  • History of Nikumaroro
  • Ethnohistory of Nikumaroro
  • Archaeology
    • The Village
    • Nutiran
    • Aukaraime South
    • The Seven Site
    • The Triangle Site
    • Kanawa Point
    • Ameriki
    • The Lagoon
    • The reef
    • Index of Archaeological Material

Research in Other Places

• Fiji
  • 1989 Initial Research
  • 1999 Bones Search I
  • 2003 Bones Search II

1989	McKean Island
1995	Nikumaroro village, Waghena Island
1998	Kanton (Canton) Island
2001	Tarawa
	Funafuti
	Hanslope Park
2003	Auckland
	Kellogg, Idaho
	Misty Fjords, Alaska

Other Lines of Investigation

• Monte Carlo Simulation of Flight

Research Partners, Sponsors, Benefactors

• FedEx
• Photek
• Stihl
• Select GIS Services