Nikumaroro

Amelia Earhart's story is revolutionary: She was the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean, and might have been the first to fly around the world had her plane not vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.

Researchers will travel 2,900 kilometres by ship to Nikumaroro in the Republic of Kiribati, where they believe Earhart's Lockheed Electra may rest in waters.

Researchers seeking to chronicle Amelia Earhart's fate 75 years after she vanished over the Pacific are to set off from Hawaii on a $2 million expedition on Tuesday to look for wreckage of her plane near a remote island where they believe the US aviator died as a castaway.

Amelia Earhart's story is revolutionary: She was the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean, and might have been the first to fly around the world had her plane not vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.

Researchers will travel 2,900 kilometres by ship to Nikumaroro in the Republic of Kiribati, where they believe Earhart's Lockheed Electra may rest in waters.

Researchers seeking to chronicle Amelia Earhart's fate 75 years after she vanished over the Pacific are to set off from Hawaii on a $2 million expedition on Tuesday to look for wreckage of her plane near a remote island where they believe the US aviator died as a castaway.