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Lost aviator Amelia Earhart: Can the mystery be solved?

DW2 October 2026, 11:42 UTC

Nearly 90 years after 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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