A photograph from a 2009 expedition in the Pacific Ocean around Nikumaroro Island — a remote atoll between New Zealand ... ran out of fuel on its way to Howland Island and crashed into the ...

Their last known position was reported as near the Nukumanu Islands, an atoll off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Radio logs from the USCG Itasca—which was stationed at Howland Island to guide ...

In another theory, they crash landed not in the Pacific Ocean but on the remote, uninhabited Nikumaroro Atoll, an island about 400 miles south of Howland. Another theory says that Earhart ...

At about 5 p.m. they radioed their position as being over the Pacific near Howland Island and said they were ... for Earhart's plane around the Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro. No evidence is found.

By 1938 the island was colonized as part of the Phoenix ... The distance from Howland to Mili Atoll is 800 miles—nearly four and a half hours away at the Electra’s cruising speed.

On July 2, 1937, pilot Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan hopped into their Lockheed 10-E Electra and headed for Howland Island, a 0.6-square-mile coral atoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Atoll. U.S. Rep. Ed Case commended the president’s actions in a statement Monday. “I am very grateful to ...

She and a navigator, Fred Noonan, were headed to Howland Island, a tiny coral atoll in the southwestern Pacific, to refuel. But they were never seen again. For years, many have tried and failed to ...

The duo was last heard from while flying between Lae, Papua New Guinea, and Howland Island, a small coral atoll located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean. Earhart flew a ...

The other nine—Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, Wake Island and Navassa Island—are uninhabited outlying islands.