Fred Noonan
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Frederick Joseph Noonan was an American flight navigator, sea captain and aviation pioneer, who first charted many commercial airline routes across the Pacific Ocean during the 1930s. As the flight na
Fred Noonan with Amelia Earhart
Noonan and Earhart prepare for the flight to Lae at Port Darwin, Australia on June 28, 1937
Nikumaroro
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Nikumaroro, previously known as Kemins Island or Gardner Island, is a part of the Phoenix Islands, Kiribati, in the western Pacific Ocean. It is a remote, elongated, triangular coral atoll with profus
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…including several conspiracy theories. The Gardner Island hypothesis supposes Earhart and Noonan were unable to find Howland Island and continued south. Nikumaroro, one of the Phoenix Islands known at the time as Gardner Island, has been the subject of inquiry as a possible crash-landing site but, despite numerous…
Tatiman Passage (western entrance to Nikumaroro's lagoon) as seen from near Karake village ruins
Large Pandanus sp. trees, viewed from underneath: Note the typical prop roots of the trees, enabling them to live along the coast, enduring violent seas and winds. They may have been planted as a food plant for the Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme, 1938–1962.
Nikumaroro Island in 2014
Gardner and other islands of the Phoenix Group, from a geographical handbook compiled by the British Admiralty in 1943-45