Amelia Earhart Vanished Nearly 90 Years Ago. A Lagoon Anomaly May Offer a New Lead

Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific in 1937, and the search for what happened to her aircraft has never really stopped. A new expedition is heading to Nikumaroro, a remote island in Kiribati, where researchers hope a lagoon anomaly could finally reveal the fate of the missing plane.

What makes the island worth returning to is its location in the same broad Pacific search area that has drawn attention for decades, and the specific geological feature that expedition members want to examine underwater. Whether that anomaly turns out to be wreckage, debris from something else, or nothing at all is exactly the question the expedition is designed to answer.