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University of Rhode Island: Ballard, Team Searching Off Nikumaroro Island for Earhart's Plane
August 13, 2019
KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Aug. 13 [TNSscienceresearch] -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news:

University of Rhode Island Professor of Oceanography Robert Ballard and his team, aboard Ocean Exploration Trust's E/V Nautilus, are positioned off Nikumaroro Island, a remote atoll in the western Pacific on an expedition to find Amelia Earhart's airplane.

A photo, taken by a British colonial officer in 1937, provided a clue to where the aviator ma . . .

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