Nearly 90 years after Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific, researchers hope to find her missing plane on a remote Pacific island
Nearly 90 years after US aviator Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific, a new expedition to the remote island of Nikumaroro hopes a lagoon anomaly could finally reveal the fate of her missing aircraft.
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