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University of Rhode Island: Ballard, Team Off to Nikumaroro Island to Look for Earhart's Plane
July 26, 2019
KINGSTON, Rhode Island, July 26 [TNSscienceresearch] -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news:

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- Expedition begins early next month

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University of Rhode Island Professor of Oceanography Robert Ballard and his team aboard Ocean Exploration Trust's E/V Nautilus will travel early next month to Nikumaroro Island, a remote atoll within the Phoenix Islands archipelago to look for Amelia Earhart's airplane.

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