« on: June 05, 2012, 03:20:16 PM »
For those so inclined (such as myself) to study noted historical 'mysteries'..... I submit the following info for perusal:
Amelia Earhart mystery solved: she died on a Pacific island
Amelia Earhart lived with navigator Fred Noonan for days or longer on a Pacific island, ending the theory that she simply vanished, new evidence suggests.
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, the group investigating the disappearance, said Friday that new evidence of SOS signals and artifacts had been found on the island.
The group presented the new evidence Friday at a three-day conference that presented new research about Earhart's expedition across the globe.
The researchers says that previously dismissed distress signals may have actually been real, reported the Christian Science Monitor, and that Earhart and her partner's location could be traced to a tiny Pacific "atoll."
The atoll was known then as Gardner Island but is now called Nikumaroro Island. Earhart's plane is thought to have landed on the tiny Pacific reef but later been washed away by a rising tide.
According to UPI, Earhart apparently sent out 57 signals for help, most of which were previously dismissed as bogus.
Discovery reported that further evidence of Earhart's demise on the tiny strip of land was the discovery of a cosmetic jar of anti-freckle cream.
The jar was found on the island and it is well-known that Earhart had freckles that she detested.
It was previously believed that Earhart has simply "vanished" on July 2, 1937 while she made her way around the world.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/science/120603/amelia-earhart-mystery-solved-she-died-pacific-island
EARHART'S ANTI-FRECKLE CREAM JAR POSSIBLY FOUND
The jar was found on a remote island where Amelia Earhart may have lived as a castaway.
A small cosmetic jar offers more circumstantial evidence that the legendary aviator, Amelia Earhart, died on an uninhabited island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati.
Found broken in five pieces, the ointment pot was collected on Nikumaroro Island by researchers of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), which has long been investigating the last, fateful flight taken by Earhart 75 years ago.
When reassembled, the glass fragments make up a nearly complete jar identical in shape to the ones used by Dr. C. H Berry's Freckle Ointment. The ointment was marketed in the early 20th century as a concoction guaranteed to make freckles fade.
"It's well documented Amelia had freckles and disliked having them," Joe Cerniglia, the TIGHAR researcher who spotted the freckle ointment as a possible match, told Discovery News.
PHOTOS: Jars Hint at Amelia Earhart Castaway Presence
The jar fragments were found together with other artifacts during TIGHAR's nine archaeological expeditions to the tiny coral atoll believed to be Earhart's final resting place.
Analysis of the recovered artifacts will be presented at a three-day conference in Arlington, Va. A new study of post loss radio signals and the latest forensic analysis of a photograph believed to show the landing gear of Earhart's aircraft on Nikumaroro reef three months after her disappearance, will be also discussed.
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According to Gillespie, the possibility that Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan might have made an emergency landing on Nikumaroro's flat coral reef, some 300 miles southeast of their target destination, is supported by a number of artifacts which, combined with archival research, strongly point to a castaway presence on the remote island.
"Broken shards from several glass containers have been recovered from the Seven Site, the archaeological site on the southeast end of Nikumaroro that fits the description of where the partial skeleton of a castaway was discovered in 1940," Gillespie told Discovery News.
Found with the skeletal remains at that time were part of a man's shoe, part of a woman's shoe, a box that had once contained a sextant, remnants of a fire, bird bones and turtle bones -- all suggesting that the site had been the castaways' camp.
"Unfortunately, the bones and artifacts found in 1940 were subsequently lost," said Gillespie.
Like most archaeological sites, the Seven Site has yielded evidence of activity from several different periods in the island's history and not all of the glass recovered from the site is attributable to the castaway.
"For example, the top of a war-time Coke bottle and pieces of what was probably a large salt shaker of a style used by the U.S. military are almost certainly relics of one or more U.S. Coast Guard target shooting forays," Gillespie said.
Much of the glass, however, appears to be associated with a castaway presence.
Two of the bottles, both dating from the 1930s, were found in what had been a small campfire.
"The bottoms of both bottles are melted but the upper portions, although shattered, are not heat-damaged -- implying that the bottles once stood upright in the fire. A length of wire found in the same spot has been twisted in such a way as to serve as a handle for holding a bottleneck," said Gillespie.
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"It seems reasonable to speculate that the bottles were used by the castaway to boil collected water to make it safe for drinking," he added.
Some of the recovered items contained products generally used only by women.
Laboratory analysis of remnants of the contents in a three-ounce bottle show a close match to Campana Italian Balm, a hand lotion made in Batavia, Ill. that was popular among American women in the 1930s.
However, the most intriguing of the Seven Site bottles appears to be the small cosmetic jar.
"The problem we have in precisely identifying the jar is that all the examples we have found come in opaque white glass. The artifact jar is clear glass," said Cerniglia.
So far, the researchers have not been able to match the exact size of the artifact jar to a known jar of Dr. Berry's product.
"The reassembled artifact jar does, however, fit nicely in a box in which freckle cream was marketed. The known Dr. Berry jars do not. So we know there was a jar of Dr. Berry's Freckle Ointment of the same size as the artifact jar, but we don't know whether it was clear glass," Gillespie said.
More important than the exact contents of the jar, is the fact that four of the broken pieces of the ointment pot were found together. The fifth piece was discovered about 65 feet away near the bones of a turtle.
According to Gillespie, that piece of glass shows evidence of secondary use as a cutting or slicing tool.
"The bottles and other artifacts we have found at the Seven Site tell a fascinating, but still incomplete, story of ingenuity, survival, and, ultimately, tragedy. Whether it is Amelia Earhart's story remains to be seen," Gillespie said.
http://news.discovery.com/history/amelia-earhart-freckle-creme-jar-120530.html
Amelia Earhart Distress Call Details Emerge
New details about the last moments of legendary aviator Amelia Earhart’s fateful voyage to fly around the world at the equator have emerged, adding to the evidence that she didn’t just vanish off the face of the Earth.
Dozens of radio signals that were previously dismissed have been found to be credible transmissions from the famed pilot just after her Lockheed Model 10E “Electra“ went down on July 2, 1937, according to a new study.
It has been generally accepted that Earhart’s plane simply ran out of fuel and crashed in the Pacific as she searched for Howland Island, the final refueling stop before flying on to Honolulu and then California.
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), the group planning an expedition to search for the lost crash site and final resting place of Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan, said the radio transmissions entered the air waves just hours after Earhart sent out her last in-flight message.
TIGHAR presented their findings during a three-day conference last week in Arlington, Virginia. Among the discoveries: a small broken cosmetic jar found on an uninhabited island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati, which the group believes proves where Amelia Earhart’s plane went down nearly 75 years ago.
The cosmetic jar, when reassembled, looks eerily similar to that of Dr. C H Berry’s Freckle Ointment. The ointment was marketed in the early 20th century as a concoction guaranteed to make freckles fade.
“It’s well documented Amelia had freckles and disliked having them,” said Joe Cerniglia, the TIGHAR researcher who spotted the freckle ointment as a possible match. The ointment jar was found along with several other artifacts during TIGHAR’s nine expeditions made to the uninhabited island in the Pacific.
TIGHAR is now about to begin a high-tech underwater search for parts of the plane in July, marking the 75th anniversary of Earhart’s disappearance.
“Amelia Earhart did not simply vanish on July 2, 1937. Radio distress calls believed to have been sent from the missing plane dominated the headlines and drove much of the US Coast Guard and Navy search,” Ric Gillespie, executive director of TIGHAR, told Discovery News.
“When the search failed, all of the reported post-loss radio signals were categorically dismissed as bogus and have been largely ignored ever since,” he added.
Now, using a series of tools, models, and other high-tech equipment, TIGHAR was able to examine the 120 known reports of radio signals suspected to have been sent from Earhart’s plane within hours after the crash on July 2, 1937 through July 18, 1937, when the official search ended. The examinations conclude that 57 of the 120 signals are credible.
“The results of the study suggest that the aircraft was on land and on its wheels for several days following the disappearance,” said Gillespie.
During her scheduled approach of Howland Island at 07:42 a.m. local time on July 2, 1937, Earhart called the Coast Guard cutter Itasca, stationed at Howland for flight support.
“We must be on you, but cannot see you — but gas is running low. Have been unable to reach you by radio. We are flying at 1,000 feet,” said Earhart.
Her final in-flight message came one hour later at 08:43 a.m.
“We are on the line 157 337. We will repeat this message. We will repeat this on 6210 kilocycles. Wait,” she said.
TIGHAR said the numbers 157 and 337 refer to compass headings and describe a navigational line that passed not only Howland Island, but also Gardner Island, now called Nikumaroro. This uninhabited island is where TIGHAR believes Earhart and Noonan landed after running out of fuel, and where they died as castaways.
TIGHRA theorizes that Earhart made several days of radio transmissions before the plane washed over the reef and disappeared before searchers flew over the area.
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more at link:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112547567/amelia-earhart-distress-call-details-emerge/
http://www.earhartsearch75.com/index.html
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