Post by AztecWilliam on Nov 1, 2016 20:46:47 GMT -8
To be fair, this is not exactly conclusive evidence. But, based on my knowledge of the Earhart/Noonan disappearance, I tend to think that this is a pretty believable hypothesis.
One of history's great mysteries!
www.seeker.com/skeleton-could-be-amelia-earhart-died-as-a-castaway-2074592765.html
AzWm
PS: Here is something from Wikipedia regarding Nicumaroro Island and the Amelia Earhart case.
Nikumaroro Island is about 640 km (400 mi) southeast of Earhart's intended destination, Howland Island. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) made several expeditions to Nikumaroro during the 1990s and 2000s.[6][7][18] They investigated documentary, archaeological and anecdotal evidence supporting a hypothesis that in July 1937, aviators Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan landed on Gardner after failing to find Howland Island during the final stage of their ill-fated world flight. It was surmised that Earhart and Noonan might have survived on Nikumaroro for several weeks before succumbing to injury, starvation, disease or dehydration on the waterless atoll.[18][19] In June 2010, TIGHAR made a 10th expedition to the island.[20]
In an area on the atoll's southeast side called the "Seven Site", the team has found and cataloged artifacts: US beauty and skin care products that may have dated to the 1930s, such as flakes of rouge and a shattered mirror from a woman's cosmetic compact,[21] parts of a folding pocket knife, traces of campfires bearing bird and fish bones, clams opened in the same way as oysters in New England, "empty shells laid out as if to collect rain water" and US bottles dating from before World War II, their heat-warped bottoms showing they "had once stood in a fire as if to boil drinking water."[22] What appeared to be the phalanx bone of a human finger found at the site and examined by forensic anthropologist Karen Ramey Burns has been examined by Dr. Cecil Lewis at the Molecular Anthropology Laboratories at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, USA. DNA tests on the bone fragment proved inconclusive for testing as to whether it is turtle or human.[23] There are many critics of TIGHAR's hypothesis. TIGHAR's Gillespie is credited as a good showman, but solid results are lacking.[24] A curator at the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum, said, "Not to impugn [the head of TIGHAR], but I don’t think he’s found anything on any expedition".[25]
One of history's great mysteries!
www.seeker.com/skeleton-could-be-amelia-earhart-died-as-a-castaway-2074592765.html
AzWm
PS: Here is something from Wikipedia regarding Nicumaroro Island and the Amelia Earhart case.
Nikumaroro Island is about 640 km (400 mi) southeast of Earhart's intended destination, Howland Island. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) made several expeditions to Nikumaroro during the 1990s and 2000s.[6][7][18] They investigated documentary, archaeological and anecdotal evidence supporting a hypothesis that in July 1937, aviators Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan landed on Gardner after failing to find Howland Island during the final stage of their ill-fated world flight. It was surmised that Earhart and Noonan might have survived on Nikumaroro for several weeks before succumbing to injury, starvation, disease or dehydration on the waterless atoll.[18][19] In June 2010, TIGHAR made a 10th expedition to the island.[20]
In an area on the atoll's southeast side called the "Seven Site", the team has found and cataloged artifacts: US beauty and skin care products that may have dated to the 1930s, such as flakes of rouge and a shattered mirror from a woman's cosmetic compact,[21] parts of a folding pocket knife, traces of campfires bearing bird and fish bones, clams opened in the same way as oysters in New England, "empty shells laid out as if to collect rain water" and US bottles dating from before World War II, their heat-warped bottoms showing they "had once stood in a fire as if to boil drinking water."[22] What appeared to be the phalanx bone of a human finger found at the site and examined by forensic anthropologist Karen Ramey Burns has been examined by Dr. Cecil Lewis at the Molecular Anthropology Laboratories at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, USA. DNA tests on the bone fragment proved inconclusive for testing as to whether it is turtle or human.[23] There are many critics of TIGHAR's hypothesis. TIGHAR's Gillespie is credited as a good showman, but solid results are lacking.[24] A curator at the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum, said, "Not to impugn [the head of TIGHAR], but I don’t think he’s found anything on any expedition".[25]