The Journey Of Amelia Earhart And Howland Island

On June 1st, 1937, Amelia Earhart, took off on what she thought would be a historical flight. She began her journey in Oakland, California. This was her second attempt to become the first pilot in history to circumnavigate the globe. She and her navigator, Fred Noonan, took flight in a twin engine Lockheed 10E Electra, and successfully flew to their first destination, Miami, Florida, followed by a successful flight to their next destination, South America. Together, they continued on their journey and successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean and stopped in Africa, then continued East to India and then Southeast Asia. It was later discovered, that Earhart and Noonan left important communication and navigation instruments behind, in order to possibly have more room for fuel on the long flight. On June 29th, 1937, they arrived in Lae, New Guinea; only twenty-one days after their journey began. They had already flown 22,000 miles and were only 7,000 miles away from their starting point in Oakland, California. It appeared as though they would complete their journey (“Amelia Earhart”).
However, the pair never made it to Howland Island and July 2nd was the last time Earhart and Noonan were seen alive. A little ways off the coast of the Howland Islands, they had lost radio contact with the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca. Soon, the President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, authorized a two-week search for the two. After a massive two week long search, they were declared lost at sea. It seemed obvious to many people, that Earhart’s plane crashed in the Pacific, but there are also many others who have come up with other theories about what may have happened to Earhart and Noonan (“Amelia