Research team sails to Nikumaroro to examine possible Amelia Earhart wreck
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A 17‑person research team traveled from Tarawa to the uninhabited atoll of Nikumaroro in Kiribati to investigate a submerged object that may be the wreck of Amelia Earheart's Lockheed Model 10‑E Electra, according to the team leader archaeologist Richard Petigree.
The object, called the Taraia Object, was first identified in a 2020 satellite image and appears in aerial photographs from 1938, a year after Earhart's disappearance, and the team plans to stay several days searching after a six‑day ship voyage from Tarawa.