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I'm pretty sure researchers have already found the little island next to which she landed. It appears that she and Fred Noonan died as castaways on the island of Nikumaroro. Bones were found on the island several years later, but have since been lost to history. One researcher even found a piece of aluminum on the island that they believe was used to patch a broken window on her plane.

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That's the competing theory.

Apparently there are two camps of Earhart searchers: Those who believe she crashed in the Marshal Islands and died as a POW, and those who believe she crashed on Nikumaroro and died as a castaway. The Nikumaroro folks[1] mount an expedition & issue press releases every year or so, now it seems like it's time for the team Solomon Islands to take the spotlight for a moment.

[1]http://tighar.org/

According to Wikipedia, in the 2007 expedition that found the bones, tests were done to check but the tests were inconclusive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart#Speculation_on_...

I was actually referring to bones that were found in the early 1940's and lost around the same time. I think we might be talking about a different set of bones.

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