Bones found on a remote island in the South Pacific almost certainly belong to lost aviation pioneer Ameila Earhart, an anthropologist has claimed.
Ms Earhart disappeared in July 1937 whilst trying to become the first woman to fly around the globe. She and her navigator Fred Noonan were last seen when they left Papua New Guinea.
The bones were found in 1940, but they were thought to belong to a man..
But now using modern techniques, it’s been determined they belonged to a woman. They’re also 100 times more likely to belong to Ms Earhart than any randomly selected other person.
As well as the bones, the 1940 search party found a woman’s shoe, a navigational instrument called a sextant and a bottle of Benadictine, which Ms Earhart was known to carry.
Who was Amelia Earhart?
Amelia Earhart was an American aviator (pilot) who set many flying records.
She became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and the first person ever to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland.
During a flight to circumnavigate the globe, Earhart disappeared somewhere over the Pacific in July 1937. Her plane wreckage was never found, and she was officially declared lost at sea. Her disappearance remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century.
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Thats crazy
That is so cool!
Waoh !
thats kind of discusting
I think the real question is how did she die?
creepy
creepy as bro creepy as
THAT’S CRAZZZY!
Well now they know
are yu completely comfadint that its her bones
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That is awesome!
how do they know its her bones
Amazing! now we all know where she died!
That is cool and disturbing
Wow
We know where she died now! Are they going to be put inside some museum or in her grave though?
wait does that mean that is where she died?
Cool and creepy.
What
wow I am doing a report on this
cool and creepy!
This is very intersting
That blows my MIND! ?
This is so interesting and scary she was a amazing person but how did she die ?
I was learning about her!!!
Not true. She died by crashing into the sea.
I Wish She Flew To NZ
That’s sad and awesome
thats amazing in many ways
Well how do they know
WOW