Earhart Project

News	Niku V home Niku V Research Reports Major Archival Find: The Carey Diaries
Current Work	Finding Amelia--TIGHAR Literary Guild TIGHARS on Tinian
General Information	Overview Earhart Myths TIGHAR's Hypothesis Book Reviews
Wiki outline
Facts & FAQs	Photographs Maps Amelia Earhart FAQs
Research Reports	Research Bulletins Earhart Search Forum Help Wanted Forum Highlights TIGHAR Tracks Articles Research Reports and Papers
Project History	* Early Expeditions
Resources	Original Documents Actual film of Amelia Earhart’s final takeoff, July 2, 1937 (place on YouTube) The Amelia Earhart Book and Film Festival--short reviews
Project Stuff	Earhart Project Research CD T-Shirts and other wearables Books

Background Information

• Amelia Earhart
• Fred Noonan
• Gerald Gallagher
• Previous around-the-world flights

Around the World!

• Lockheed Electra 10E Special - NR16020

First attempt--March 17-20, 1937

• Synopsis
• Flight Planning
• Preparations, Oakland to Honolulu
• Disaster at Luke Field

Second Attempt--May 20-July 2, 1937

• Flight Planning
• Timeline of the second round-the-world attempt
• Darwin to Lae: 29 June
• Delayed in Lae
• Preparations to take off
• Earhart's Last Takeoff
• Lae to Nightfall
• Nightfall to Ship In Sight
• "We are on the line 157 337"
• Landing on the Reef?
• What went wrong?

Searches without Rescue

• Maps of the Earhart Search
• Coast Guard search
  • The First 24 Hours
• Navy search
  • Colorado search
  • Lexington search
  • PBY flight from Pearl Harbor
• British search
• Japanese search
• Search by the Yankee

Post-loss Radio Messages

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

On Gardner / Nikumaroro

1937-1938

• P.I.S.S. exploration of the island (1937)
• 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?
• Who Died on Niku?

Subsequent Events

• Coast Guard LORAN Station (1944-1946?)
• Floyd Kilts' Stories about the Bones (1960)
• The Bones File Surfaces (1997)

TIGHAR Research

Background on TIGHAR

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

TIGHAR on Nikumaroro

• "A Short History of a Long Project: Niku I--IIII."
• 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)
• Artifact analysis
• 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
1997	Funafuti
1998	Kanton (Canton) Island
1998	Hanslope Park
2001	Tarawa
2003	Auckland
2004	Tinian
2004	Kellogg, Idaho
2004	Misty Fjords, Alaska

Other Lines of Investigation

• Monte Carlo Simulation of Flight
• The Wreck Photo
• The Lost Antenna
• Betty's Notebook