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Amelia Earhart: Howland Island
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Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, at her grandparent's home in Atchison, Kansas, a small town overlooking the Missouri River. She spent much of her childhood in Atchison with her grandparents and attended private schools there. Amelia's father, Edwin Earhart, worked with the Rock Island Railroad as a claims manager. When he was transferred, the family moved to Des Moines, Iowa.
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Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, the daughter of Edwin and Amy Otis Earhart. Until she was 12 she lived with her wealthy maternal grandparents, Alfred and Amelia Harres Otis, in Atcheson, Kansas, where she attended a private day school. Her summers were spent in Kansas City, Missouri, where her lawyer-father worked for the Rock Island Railroad.
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Intriguingly, still other researchers have recently found what appear to be the remains of Amelia Earhart's plane off Howland Island, near where her last radio broadcast was heard. For example, NBC-TV's "Unsolved Mysteries" Fall 1992 and Spring 1993 season broadcast programs which dealt with the subject of Amelia Earhart, quoting researchers as believing they've found evidence of where Amelia Earhart's plane actually went down. The question was ... addressed in an article in Air and Space Smithsonian in August 1992 ("Amelia Earhart: Is the Search Over?" by Stephan Wilkinson, 6-8). The site they've pinpointed is a tiny atoll too small to harbor life, about 300 miles from Howland Island. Part of a shoe heel and a metal box from an aircraft cabin, which only fits into a plane of 1937 vintage, were found.
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One of the many theories surrounding Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance in the central Pacific holds that Earhart might have been spying for the United States in order to learn more about Japanese military activities in the vicinity. This Web page --part of the Web site of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) in the Pacific Ocean --contains an interesting article that explores this hypothesis.
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TIGHAR's 12-year investigation, dubbed The Earhart Project, offers compelling new evidence which suggests that the ill-fated flight reached Nikumaroro, formerly Gardner Island. This uninhabited coral atoll is in the Phoenix Group, now part of the Republic of Kiribati. Islands of Kiribati are low-lying coral atolls built on a submerged volcanic chain and encircled by reefs.
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In 1909, when Amelia was a young teenager, Edwin was promoted, and their standard of living improved. Soon after, Edwin began to drink and it became apparent to Amelia, friends and neighbors that he had become an alcoholic. After Edwin was fired from The Rock Island Railroad in 1914, Amy took the children to live with friends in Chicago.
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