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Thirty years of science-based research and a dozen archaeological expeditions have established that Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan landed on the reef at Gardner Island (now Nikumaroro) and sent radio distress calls for five nights before their Lockheed Electra was washed into the ocean by rising ties and surf, leaving them cast away on the uninhabited, waterless atoll. Earhart’s partial skeleton was found in 1940, but misidentified. Noonan’s fate is still unknown.

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