Chasing Amelia: The 90-Year Search for Earhart and the Nikumaroro Hypothesis

On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific during an attempted around-the-world flight. The massive initial search failed, but decades of expeditions, forensic analysis, and competing theories kept the case alive. This timeline traces the flight and disappearance, the rise of the Gardner/Nikumaroro castaway hypothesis, key archaeological and sonar surveys, and the 2026 expedition hoping a lagoon anomaly will finally locate the missing aircraft. This timeline was generated automatically by TimeStrands AI from Wikipedia research. Facts are sourced; framing may be imperfect.