Will a popular Amelia Earhart theory be proved? 'Something is there.' - USA Today
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Researchers are sailing to Nikumaroro, a remote Pacific island, to test whether Amelia Earhart crash-landed there — and someone on the team says "something is there."
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Theory Briefing
- Nikumaroro, a tiny Pacific island between Australia and Hawaii, is the target of a new expedition to find evidence of Earhart's final landing.
- The castaway theory holds that Earhart and her navigator survived the 1937 disappearance and died as castaways on the island's shore.
- A researcher's confident claim — 'something is there' — suggests the team may have specific, undisclosed evidence driving the voyage.
- Decades of prior searches have kept the Earhart mystery alive, making each new expedition a test of whether physical proof can ever settle a cold case.