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There is no mystery more gripping than the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan in 1937 as they chased a distant goal across the Pacific. Earhart stood as a pioneering aviator who had already accomplished a solo Atlantic crossing, a feat that made her a lasting symbol of daring flight. The search for their aircraft has never really ended. Researchers associated with the nonprofit The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, known as TIGHAR, have spent years revisiting flight records, studying radio logs, and surveying remote islands to uncover what happened in those final hours. Their investigations increasingly center on a small atoll and reef called Nikumaroro in the Phoenix Islands group, where a careful reexamination of evidence could shift the balance of the case.