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Western history is full of the daring feats of explorers—Lewis and Clark in North America, John Cabot in Canada, Marco Polo along the Silk Road, and the list goes on.
But what about the explorers who set out with the same optimism as these navigational celebrities, only to face mysterious adversity?
Here are five explorers who had all the advantages of their more successful counterparts, only not to reach their goals and leave very little trace of their true fates.
Franklin’s failed Northwest Passage quest
British explorer Sir John Franklin left England in 1845 with 129 crew members and officers in search of the Northwest Passage, a shipping route from the Atlantic to the Pacific through Canada.
They were expertly equipped with iron-sheathed ships, three years of food and drink, even an early daguerreotype camera.
Instead of finding the passage, however, the ships became trapped in the Canadian Arctic’s most treacherous, ice-choked corner, north of King William Island.
Twenty-four men died by April 1848, including the captain.
The new captain, Francis Crozier, apparently abandoned the ships and set out with the remaining crew over the icy terrain in a desperate attempt to reach land.
Inuit hunters reported seeing bedraggled crewmen dragging sleds across the ice.
A few bodies have since been found, along with deserted campsites and bits and pieces, including silver dessert spoons and cotton shirt fragments.
In 2014, the wreck of Erebus was located, followed by the Terror in 2016.
While the wrecks themselves did not solve the mystery of what killed the men, the recovered bones of some men bore knife marks, suggesting the crew was fending off starvation by cannibalism.
Fawcett’s Lost City of Z
British explorer Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett already had undertaken several expeditions into the Amazon early in the 20th century when he came across an irresistible Portuguese document at the National Library of Brazil.
Detailing the discovery of a “large, hidden, and very ancient city, without inhabitants, discovered in the year 1753,” it told of grand ruins hidden in the Mato Grosso jungle.
Fawcett instantly decided to find the ruins, which he named the Lost City of Z.
After one failed attempt to find this awesome site, Fawcett, his son Jack, his son’s friend Raleigh Rimell, and two local laborers departed into the Brazilian wilderness in April 1925.
They wrote their last dispatch home on May 20.
Their Brazilian helpers had left them, Fawcett noted, but “You need have no fear of failure.”
No one ever heard from the party again.
Their disappearance became an obsession, with adventurers over the next decades trying to retrace their steps.
A reporter who went after Fawcett in 1930 also disappeared, as did a Swiss hunter and his search party.
Unconfirmed reports filtered out from the jungle of pale-skinned prisoners and their young children, but Fawcett and his party have never been found.
Mallory’s ill-fated Everest summit
The hopes of the world, or at least of the world’s mountain-climbing community, were pinned on George Leigh Mallory when he began his third attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest in April 1924.
The handsome English climber had reached 27,235 feet, 1,800 feet below Everest’s peak, on a 1922 expedition.
This time, he intended to make it to the top.
On June 8, Mallory and his young companion, Sandy Irvine, set out on what they hoped would be the final sprint.
A fellow climber spotted them, two black spots, about 800 vertical feet below the summit. Then a snow squall closed in, and the climbers disappeared.
Mallory’s body was not recovered for 75 years.
In 1999, climber Conrad Anker discovered Mallory’s frozen corpse at 26,760 feet on the mountain’s north face. Irvine’s body has not been found.
Whether Mallory was on his way up to the summit or was coming down from a successful ascent is unknown.
If he did reach the peak, he would have beaten Edmund Hillary, the New Zealand mountaineer who has been lauded for being the first man to reach the summit since his successful ascent in 1953.
But the world may never know.
Amelia Earhart’s strange disappearance
Amelia Earhart was world famous. She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and the first person to fly from Hawaii to California.
Her round-the-world flight in 1937 was her final challenge.
Accompanying her when she took off from Miami on 1 June 1937 was an experienced navigator, Frederick Noonan.
The first legs of the 29,000-mile trip were arduous, but the 2,556-mile Pacific leg from New Guinea to tiny Howland Island was the toughest of all.
From the air, Earhart radioed she couldn’t see the island and was running low on fuel. Then silence.
Recent forensic analysis suggest that bones found in 1940 on the Pacific island of Nikumaroro were those of the aviator.
Dimensions of Earhart’s body according to photos and clothing matched measurements recorded of the bones.
Unfortunately, the bones themselves were lost—so DNA testing cannot be done.
Researchers are still following every lead, from a skull fragment found in a museum to underwater fragments possibly from her plane, but so far, her disappearance remains a mystery.
Ambrose Bierce’s baffling Mexican quest
Ambrose Bierce isn’t the typical explorer. A Civil War veteran, he was also a journalist and poet, known for his cynical and misanthropic writings.
One such entry in his Devil’s Dictionary, for example, reads, “Fidelity: A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.”
In 1913, with his family dead and his career waning, the 71-year-old Bierce headed out to visit Civil War battlefields, including Missionary Ridge and Chickamauga, and onward to Mexico.
“I am going to Mexico with a pretty definite purpose, which is not at all presently disclosable,” he wrote to his secretary.
He may have joined up with Pancho Villa’s rebel army and traveled with it to Chihuahua.
Reports from one of Villa’s battles told of an “old gringo” killed in the fighting.
Could that have been Bierce? Or did he live on in Mexico, California, France, or Brazil, where reports have placed him over the years?
#Sir John Franklin#Northwest Passage#King William Island#Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett#Amazon#Lost City of Z#Mato Grosso#George Leigh Mallory#Sandy Irvine#Mt. Everest#Conrad Anker#Amelia Earhart#Frederick Noonan#Nikumaroro#Ambrose Bierce#Mexico#explorers#missing explorers#mystery#disappearance
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Amelia Earharts death
hi ya so yall remember that meme about Amelia Earhart being eaten by Crabs?
WELL IT WAS TRUE
THEY TESTED THE BONES THEY FOUND THEIR AND THEY ARE A 99% MATCH
HOLY SHIT
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A coconut crab on Nikumaroro Island.
PHOTOGRAPH BY GABRIEL SCARLETT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
#gabriel scarlett#photographer#national geographic#coconut crab#crab#animal#nikumaroro island#nature
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My 7-year old past self is happy and sad that possibly the search for Amelia Earhart has come to an end.
Deep Sea Vision found what it looks to be Amelia Earhart's Lockheed 10-E Electra airplane resting at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. It's a sonar image, but it's enough you can see the tail of the plane and it really does look like the Lockheed 10-E Electra. If this is Amelia Earhart airplane, I am surprise how intact it is and it appears that maybe the nose cone broke off from it likely from impact. But still, for it to be that intact is strange and that can kinda tell you a story on how it landed. But what is fascinating, the search team launched from Tarawa, Kiribati near Nikumaroro Island, Kiribati. Nikumaroro is very significant because this is the island where in 1940, 3 years after Amelia's disappearance, they found bones belonging to a female, that matched her structure and height, a shoe, supplies that Amelia would of had on her airplane and including the same moisturizer she used.
Sadly, there are three theories that are likely true now....
Amelia Earhart drowned to death (assuming because the airplane was floating it seems to be mostly intact.) And some of her belongings floated up, eventually making it's way to the island. And the bones was so random woman. BUT keep in mind that there are no other known crashes in the area.
Amelia Earhart survived the crash and made it to the island. But got eaten by coconut crabs. The woman's bones was not complete and was near a old crab nest. That is - excuse my french - fucking horrifying.
Amelia Earhart survived the crash and survived on the island for a short time, possibly suffered from injuries she may had sustained in the crash.
Get ready for a new Amelia Earhart movie coming soon.
H-how big are coconut crabs to eat a whole ass person????
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American Aviatrix Amelia Earhart (1897-1937)
In 2010, female NASA astronaut Shannon Walker carried one of Earhart's wrist watches for 163 days onboard the International Space Station.This 35 mm Longines is on display in the Ninety-Nines Women's aviation museum in Oklahoma City.
85 years ago, 6 weeks into their Eastward near-equator around the world flight, American Amelia Earhart & her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared above the vast Pacific Ocean.
On July 1, 1937 Earhart's twin engined Lockheed Electra departed Lae - New Guinea aiming towards the tiny Howland island, where she could land & refuel with US Navy support ship USCGC Itasca.
However, on July 2, 1937 the aircraft ran out of fuel and was lost... did they miss Howland island and were marooned on the shores of Nikumaroro?
Certainly the most intruiging aviation mystery, which I would like to see resolved in my lifetime!
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#Aviation#Aviatrix#Lockheed#Amelia Earhart#ICAO#TIGHAR#Longines#NASA#US Navy#Itasca#Pacific#MoonwatchUniverse#Navigation#montres#wrist watch#uhren#zulu time#Sunrise#NationalGeographic
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Has Amelia Earhart’s Plane Really Been Found? 6 Key Things To Know
A New Grainy Sonar Image Claims to Solve the Mystery of the Famed Aviator’s Disappearance, But Experts Say it’s Too Soon to tell. Here's What We Do Know.
— By Rachel Hartigan | January 29, 2024
Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to circumnavigate the globe in this Lockheed Electra 10e airplane on July 2, 1937. Experts say it's too early to know for sure whether claims that the wreckage has been found are true. Photograph Courtesy PF-(Aircraft), Alamy Stock Photo
With the Release of a Grainy Gold Image, news headlines around the world are trumpeting the possible discovery of Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Electra 10e, the plane she was flying in 1937 when she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared during the most difficult leg of their round-the-world flight.
Deep Sea Vision, a new venture founded by pilot and commercial real estate investor Tony Romeo, captured the sonar image during a hundred-day expedition in the central Pacific, the region where Earhart was lost. “It was definitely a surreal moment for all of us,” says Romeo, who sold his real estate holdings to purchase a cutting-edge autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) equipped with highly advanced sonar technologies.
The remotely operated vehicle Hercules is retrieved from the waters off Nikumaroro Island onto the deck of the E/V Nautilus in 2019 after a day of searching for Amelia Earhart’s missing airplane. Explorers have long sought to solve the mystery of the famed aviator's fate. Photograph By Gabriel Scarlett, National Geographic Image Collection
Still, it’s too soon to say whether this discovery of an object 16,000 feet deep means one of the great historical mysteries has been solved. Here’s what we do know.
1. Sonar Images Have Limitations.
Sonar images are not photographs. The sound waves sent by sonar are at a low frequency, which translates to low resolution.
“The sound wave, because it’s so big, can’t see fine detail,” says David Jourdan, an engineer whose company Nauticos has led three expeditions in search of Earhart. “It can be distorted by reflections, like taking a picture of a mirror.” Promising images, on a second look, sometimes turn out to be something else entirely, like a geological formation.
Amelia Earhart is shown in the cockpit of her autogiro on April 8, 1931, after setting a new altitude record for women in planes of this type. Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images
2. Deep Sea Vision Didn’t Confirm The Object’s Identity.
Romeo and his team found the image in their data storage files as they were transitioning to another expedition. They thought that data from one of the AUV’s earlier sorties had been corrupted. When they discovered it wasn’t—and that they had a potential blockbuster find—it was too late to return to the site.
“We were out of time. We were out of resources,” says Romeo. “And we didn’t have a camera on our [AUV]. It broke really early in the expedition.” Returning to go over the target again with just sonar didn’t seem worth the hundreds of thousands of dollars he estimated it would cost. Deep Sea Vision plans to go back to the sonar image site this year, this time with an operational camera on the AUV to confirm the finding.
National Geographic Explorer at Large Bob Ballard, pictured here in the control room of the E/V Nautilus, led a major expedition in 2019 to find the remains of Amelia Earhart's airplane. Photograph By Gabriel Scarlett, National Geographic Image Collection
3. Some Experts Say The Plane, If It Is A Plane, Doesn’t Resemble The Electra.
“The proportions aren’t quite right,” says Jourdan, pointing to the way the wings are swept back rather than straight across, as the Electra’s were.
Others are even more skeptical. “For the wings of an Electra to fold rearward as shown in the sonar image, the entire center section would have to fail at the wing/fuselage junctions,” according to an email blast from The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), an organization that has put forward the theory that Earhart died a castaway on an island to the east of the sonar image site. “That’s just not possible.”
Romeo dismisses this criticism. Both the wings and the tail look swept back due to distortion caused by the AUV moving through the water, he says, pointing to the twin fins on the back of the plane instead. “That’s very distinctive of her aircraft,” he says. “There’s only a couple of planes that’ve ever been made like that.”
Amelia Earhart is photographed with her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, the aircraft she used in her attempted flight around the world. Earhart and the plane went missing on July 2, 1937. Underwood & Underwood/Alamy Stock Photo
4. The Object’s Location Is Roughly On Earhart’s Flight Path—But Beyond The Range Suggested By Her Radio Signals.
Earhart and Noonan disappeared on July 2, 1937, flying from Lae, New Guinea, to Howland Island, a one-and-a-half-mile long island some 2,500 miles away. After flying 20 hours, Earhart thought they were close and radioed the Itasca, the Coast Guard ship awaiting them at Howland, “We must be on you but cannot see you.” Her voice was so loud, the Coast Guard radiomen thought she was very near too. She wasn’t, but the strength of the radio signals suggest that she was just beyond visual range.
Deep Sea Vision’s search area was roughly a hundred miles west; Romeo won’t reveal exactly where to avoid someone else making the crucial find. But he does acknowledge that they were guided by a theory that Noonan had failed to account for how the International Date Line would affect his calculations. That theory, however, doesn’t account for the strength of Earhart’s radio signals.
A deep-sea exploration company has captured a sonar image of an anomaly on the ocean floor that resembles an aircraft. The team believes the object could be Amelia Earhart's Lockheed 10-E Electra that went missing nearly 87 years ago. Deep Sea Vision/PR Newswire
Tony Romeo holds a model of Amelia Earhart's plane, which resembles sonar images he and his crew captured with high-tech equipment. Tony Romeo/CEO Deep Sea Vision
5. Others Have Claimed To Solve This Mystery.
Over the nearly 90 years since Earhart and Noonan vanished, many people have claimed to have proof of what happened to them.
Members of the Ballard-led expedition dive in the primary search area just off Nikumaroro Island, an isolated ring of coral and sand surrounding a turquoise lagoon where some suspect Earhart may have been landed. Photograph By Gabriel Scarlett, National Geographic Image Collection
People who believe the Japanese captured and killed the aviators have pointed to everything from a generator retrieved in a Saipan harbor in 1960 to a photograph on a Jaluit dock revealed in 2017. TIGHAR, meanwhile, has claimed various smoking guns over the years but now argues that a preponderance of historical and archaeological evidence puts Earhart on Nikumaroro Island, 400 hundred miles south of Howland, where they believe she starved to death.
Then there’s the simplest explanation: that the aviators simply crashed into the ocean. Elgen Long, an airline pilot who with his wife Marie did the most extensive research into where that might have happened, wrote a book called Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved. Over three expeditions, Jourdan has looked where Long suggested (and elsewhere) and come up empty.
6. The Mystery Is Still Unsolved. That Doesn’t Mean Its Unsolvable.
Jourdan’s team believes they’ve narrowed down where the Electra went down based on recent radio signal testing. Meanwhile, when Deep Sea Vision returns to the site this year, they will bring a documentary crew to capture the moment. “This is definitely something that we need to go back and look at,” says Romeo. “We’ve got to get out there before … you know, there is some urgency.”
Top: The Romeo Brothers are planning another Pacific Ocean expedition to get better sonar images to confirm whether they have discovered the ruins of Earhart's doomed voyage. Bettmann Archive
Bottom: Deep Sea Vision believes they may have come across Amelia Earhart's wrecked plane in the Pacific Ocean. Photo: Bettman via Getty Images/Deep Sea Vision
Tony Romeo holds a model of Amelia Earhart's plane, which resembles sonar images he and his crew captured with high-tech equipment. (Tony Romeo/CEO Deep Sea Vision)
#History & Culture#Amelia Earhart#National Geographic#Rachel Hartigan#Sonar#Sonar Images#Deep Sea#The Electra#Radio Signals#Object’s Location#Mystery#Still Unsolved
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A piece of metal debris found in the western Pacific is deemed to be from a World War II plane, not Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Electra.The mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart has made little progress in recent years. A group searching for the plane’s whereabouts believe a photo may offer the next clue worth pursuing. We may never know what happened to Amelia Earhart, but it seems we’ll always have another clue to investigate. And another theory to debate.Just as scientists ruled out one long-thought promising piece of metal debris as belonging to the famed pilot’s plane, a group spearheading a search for her downed Lockheed Electra aircraft in the western Pacific surfaced another clue to start investigating.The search for Amelia Earhart never ends.The mystery started in July 1937. Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were already six weeks and 20,000 miles deep into a trip around the world, but about 1,700 miles southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii, the pair’s planned stop at Howland Island in the Pacific never happened.The Lockheed Model 10-E Electra missed the mark of the 2.5-square-mile island in the vast ocean. Not only are we not certain why the plane never made it to the island, but we also don’t know where it went instead.Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan.Bettmann - Getty ImagesWith little proof ever unearthed to answer either question, that has left a limitless array of theories. As is often the case with these legendary mysteries, the most basic explanation—the Electra crashed into the ocean and sunk after Earhart and Noonan ran out of fuel—isn’t the most alluring.So, we have plenty of other theories, including the one that says Earhart and Noonan landed on the coral reef barrier surrounding Gardner Island, now known as Nikumaroro Island, about 350 nautical miles southeast of Howland. Distress radio calls from that island shortly following the crash bolster the theory. In fact, some believe giant crabs eventually ate Earhart after she died on the island.Then, when a piece of metal debris washed up on the island in 1991, it gave rise to the hope that it was a piece of Electra itself. It took roughly 30 years for technology to find a series of hidden letters and numbers etched on the aluminum panel not visible to the naked eye, according to the Daily Mail. While experts hoped to match the markings—letters and numbers “D24,” “XRO” and either “335” or “385”—to the Electra, recent analysis says that the plane piece actually ties to a downed Douglas C-47 World War II aircraft.Now The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), a key organization in the harboring of Earhart ideas, has something else to latch onto: a 2009 photo.Ric Gillespie, the executive director of TIGHAR, tells the Daily Mail that an underwater photo taken 14 years ago may show the plane’s engine cowling. “The similarity to an engine cowling and prop shaft was not noticed until years later,” he tells the newspaper, “and the exact location was not noted at the time, which meant attempts to relocate the object were unsuccessful.”The long-held belief in the plane panel wasn’t the only exciting piece of Earhart evidence to ultimately render a less-than-stellar result for those hoping to prove Earhart landed safely on Gardner. Bone fragments found on the island were tested over a decade ago and ultimately didn’t support the theory.Bettmann - Getty ImagesTIGHAR still maintains that the Gardner Island theory is the most accurate. The group cites several nights of distress calls and says Navy searchers saw signs of recent habitation on the island, but didn’t investigate because they believed people lived on the island, when in fact, nobody had since 1892. The group says the rising tides and surf swept the Electra over the reef edge, and it now lies in deep water off the island’s west end.A murky 2009 photo offers the latest reason for Earhart searchers to hang on to the Gardner Island theory.You Might Also Like
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Experts currently examining image which may prove to be a breakthrough into the disappearance of Amelia Earhart
Belfast Telegraph
By Kurtis Reid
September 2, 2023
An image which may show an engine cover belonging to missing pilot Amelia Earhart is currently undergoing forensic analysis in what could be a major breakthrough in finding out what happened to the aviation icon.
According to the Mail Online, the image is believed to show a piece of the pilot’s engine close to the island of Nikumaroro in the…
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Hey, I’m so sorry to say this but your boyfriend….. He was on his way to I Love You So So Much Always And Forever Island and his plane had to make an emergency landing….. Supposedly he landed on Nikumaroro island. Yeah they found remains that could possibly be his expert aren’t sure. Sorry :/
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Chasing Amelia Earhart
Today, Fictospherian Jeffrey Holloway vets the competing theories regarding what happened to Amelia Earhart, famed aviator and ghosting champion of 1937. #AmeliaEarhart #FredNoonan #missingpersons #disappearances #femaleaviators
Famed aviator Amelia Earhart (39 years old), flight navigator Fred Noonan, and their Lockheed Electra airplane disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean on the morning of July 2, 1937 on her planned round-the-world flight. Her intended destination was Howland Island (which was about halfway between Hawaii and Australia). The U.S. Coast Guard had sent the cutter USCGC Itasca to Howland to help…
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From NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day; March 26, 2018:
Nikumaroro Atoll
It is one of the most famous patches of coral outside of the Great Barrier Reef. Stretching a mere 7.5 kilometers (4.7 miles) by 2.5 kilometers (1.6 miles) and surrounded by deep ocean, it is barely a speck on world maps. Though uninhabited today, Nikumaroro atoll is noteworthy for someone who likely had a short and ill-fated residence there: Amelia Earhart.
Nearly 1,000 miles from Fiji, halfway between Australia and Hawaii, this South Pacific island is essentially a sandbar atop a coral reef atop a subsiding deep-sea volcano. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 acquired a natural-color image of the tiny island on July 28, 2014.
Once named Gardner Island by American sailors, Nikumaroro is part of the Phoenix Islands in the island nation of Kiribati. The Americans and the British tried several times to colonize the island, attempting to grow coconuts and considering the spot for weapons testing. Thick scrub and stands of Pisonia and coconut palms hold the sandbar in place around a central lagoon. Kiribati declared the island part of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in 2006.
The most famous claim to fame for Nikumaroro is that it may be the final resting place for Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan. The pair of Americans flew out of New Guinea in July 1937 on one of the last proposed legs in their attempt to circumnavigate the world by airplane. Their intended destination was Howland Island (also part of the Phoenix Island chain), but they never made it. Radio transmissions suggested they might have missed their target by several hundred miles to the southeast.
For decades, forensic scientists, historians, and aviation aficionados have searched for evidence that Earhart landed the Lockheed Electra 10E on Nikumaroro. Many of those efforts have centered around a crest of land called The Seven Site (named for the shape of a clearing). British colonists in the late 1930s found human bones, a woman's shoe, airplane parts, bottles of cosmetics, and a box that once contained a sextant (for navigation), among other items. Later explorations have turned up evidence of campfires and of shells and fish, turtle, and bird bones that appeared to have been eaten.
But early forensic studies of the remains and artifacts were crude by today’s standards and ultimately proved conflicting and inconclusive. Modern scientists no longer have access to the human bones for DNA testing. A new analysis of the old evidence, published earlier this year, concluded that there is enough evidence to call Nikumaroro the final resting place of Earhart, though the debate continues.
References and Related Reading
Discovery News, via NBC News (2012, July 13) Has Amelia Earhart’s beauty case been found. Accessed March 23, 2018.
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (2018) The Seven Site. Accessed March 23, 2018.
Jantz, R.L. et al. (2018) Amelia Earhart and the Nikumaroro Bones. Forensic Anthropology, 1 (2), 83–98.
National Geographic (2017, June 30) Why This Island is at the Center of the Search for Amelia Earhart. Accessed March 23, 2018.
The Washington Post (2018, March 7) Bones discovered on a Pacific island belong to Amelia Earhart, a new forensic analysis shows. Accessed March 23, 2018.
Wikipedia (2018) Nikumaroro. Accessed March 23, 2018.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Mike Carlowicz. Instrument(s): Landsat 8 - OLI
#earth observatory#satellite photo#island#atoll#history#Nikumaroro#Gardner Island#Phoenix Islands#Kiribati#landsat 8#long post
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The Nikumaroro Islands
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Trope Mash Up 72, 96, 97 and Captain Canary please
72. Stranded on a Desert Island
96. Scars
97. Time Travel
During Rip's time scattering of everyone at the start of season 2 Sara and Leonard land on the island of Nikumaroro in 1937. Naturally, they do what they need to survive. They build shelter, hunt, fish, and otherwise search for food, half-create a plan to get off the island, and of course, they spend plenty of quality time together.
Len has seen hints of Sara's scars before, but the first time he gets a good look at them is when she announces that she smells and she's going to be washing her clothes. Once he forces himself to stop staring he decides to follow her lead, and they spend the time they scrub at their clothes trading stories.
Then, of course, continue to do so while doing other activities while their clothes dry.
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American Aviatrix Amelia Earhart (1897-1937)
In 2010, female NASA astronaut Shannon Walker carried one of Earhart's wrist watches for 163 days onboard the International Space Station.This 35 mm Longines is on display in the Ninety-Nines Women's aviation museum in Oklahoma City.
85 years ago, 6 weeks into their Eastward near-equator around the world flight, American Amelia Earhart & her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared above the vast Pacific Ocean.
On July 1, 1937 Earhart's twin engined Lockheed Electra departed Lae - New Guinea aiming towards the tiny Howland island, where she could land & refuel with US Navy support ship USCGC Itasca.
However, on July 2, 1937 the aircraft ran out of fuel and was lost... did they miss Howland island and were marooned on the shores of Nikumaroro?
Certainly the most intruiging aviation mystery, which I would like to see resolved in my lifetime!
(Photo/Slide: MoonwatchUniverse)
#Aviation#Aviatrix#ICAO#Lockheed#Electra#Radionavigation#Radio#NASA#Pacific#WorldTour#Sunrise#MoonwatchUniverse#Amelia Earhart#us navy#itasca#National Geographic#Explorer#pilot#montres#Zulu time
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Sumireko sat down on the Shrine's front steps. "So what really happened to Amelia Earhart?"
Yukari smiled the same enigmatic smile she already had. "There isn't much to say," she said, leaning over the edge of the gap. "Earhart and Noonan couldn't find Howland Island, so they changed their course. They finally crashed at Nikumaroro Island, with very little rations, and after she was declared missing, several of their SOS messages were deemed hoaxes."
"Oh." Sumireko couldn't hide her disappointment.
"I then spirited both of them away to Gensokyo," said Yukari. "How could I possibly resist the temptation of a human who had passed into fantasy during her own lifetime? They learned Japanese, became Human Villagers, and Miss Earhart learned enough magic that she could fly by herself. They both died of old age, long before even Reimu was born."
"This story sounds suspicious," said Reimu, setting the tea tray down between them.
Yukari was all smiles. "If you like, you may visit the Village and ask around for those who still live who knew her."
Sumireko exchanged a look with Reimu, whose expression said that she fully expected that this would result in an unproductive wild goose chase. "I'll pass," the Shrine Maiden said flatly.
#touhou#sumireko usami#yukari yakumo#reimu hakurei#amelia earhart#fred noonan#microfiction#shenanigans#my stuff#my writing
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Amelia Earhart directly after landing on Nikumaroro Island, before seeing the coconut crabs:
#buzzfeed unsolved#amelia earhart#shane madej#ryan bergara#mine#i think i'm funny#but i'm probably not#the crab meme is stupidly funny to me#like yeah sure amelia earheart was eaten by coconut crabs
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