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

1995	Nikumaroro village, Waghena Island
1998	Kanton (Canton) Island
	McKean Island
	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