The search for Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart before takeoff from Los Angeles to Oakland days prior to attempting to fly around the globe.
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This month marks the 75th anniversary of Earhart’s doomed attempt to fly around the globe.
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Last week a search expedition left Hawaii for Nikumaroro, a tiny, uninhabited South Pacific atoll.
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What is believed to be airplane wreckage is seen in this image taken in October 1939, in Nikumaroro, Republic of Kiribati.
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An autonomous underwater vehicle designed by Bluefin Robotics of Quincy will help in the search.
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There are other local connections to Earhart's story - at the time of her disappearance, her only sibling was living in Medford.
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Amelia Earhart relocated from California to the Boston area in 1925 and often flew from what was then Dennison Airport in Quincy.
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Earhart on the roof of the Hyde Park Hotel in London, with Captain Hilton H. Railey, in 1928.
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