Case file · High strangeness
The Nikumaroro bones
In 1940 a British colonial officer, Gerald Gallagher, found part of a human skeleton on Nikumaroro (Gardner Island) in Kiribati; some argue it was Amelia Earhart's.
1940 CE · -4.67, -174.52 · status: disputed
The account
A doctor in Fiji judged the bones male in 1941, and they were later lost. In 2018 anthropologist Richard Jantz re-analysed the measurements and argued they matched Earhart more closely than most people. The group TIGHAR has led many expeditions to the island.
The sceptical view
The bones are lost, so no DNA test is possible; artefacts found on the island have not been tied to Earhart beyond doubt.