In 1937, Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific; 89 years later, a 17-member expedition has set out on an 830-nautical-mile voyage to Nikumaroro to inspect a lagoon anomaly visible in aerial photos from 1938
Earhart disappeared on July 2, 1937, while attempting to fly around the world. She and navigator Fred Noonan were travelling from Papua New Guinea toward Howland Island, a tiny Pacific atoll intended to be their next refuelling stop. Nearly nine decades after Amelia Earhart vanished somewhere over the Pacific, the search for her aircraft has…