In another update on the lost Amelia Earhart aircraft: Rick Gillespie of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) recently sent out an email with the subject line, “Possible ...

With the evidence that we have now, it would be a offense for nobody to go there and look, Rick Pettigrew said, it would be a offense not to go there and look. Almost 90 years since Earhart and her ...

RIC GILLESPIE REMEMBERS being asked over and over: When are you going after Amelia? It was the late 1980s, just a few years after he had established the International Group for Historic Aircraft ...

Purdue University announced a plan to locate Amelia Earhart’s lost aircraft. Dubbed the Taraia Object Expedition, the effort will include a field team visiting the Pacific island Nikumaroro in ...

In 1985, he discovered the Titanic scattered beneath the Atlantic Ocean. He and his team also located the giant Nazi battleship Bismarck and, more recently, 18 shipwrecks in the Black Sea. Ballard has ...

In the summer of 1937, a nation was in mourning over a national tragedy. The world’s most famed female flyer, Amelia Earhart, had disappeared amid a riveting voyage to become the first woman aviator ...

This folder contains a report and a list documenting the plant species of Gardner Island [Nikumaroro]. The report, "Notes on the flora of Gardner Island" by C. R. Long (undated), lists species ...