The Island

Howland Island — a flat, two-mile sliver of coral in the central Pacific where a crushed-coral airstrip and the cutter Itasca waited for Amelia Earhart on July 2, 1937. She never arrived.

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Amelia's Flight: The 1937 World Flight
The Records
The Pilots
The Plane
The Island
The Last Hours
The Archives
The Theories