The disappearance of pioneering aviator Amelia ... square nautical miles. 2009: Ted Waitt, a co-founder of a computer firm, finances an undersea search on the western side of Howland Island.

By Julie Cohn For two weeks in August, a multimillion-dollar search from air, land and sea sought to solve the 80-year mystery of Amelia Earhart ... around the island to map it with multibeam ...

A piece of metal debris found in the western Pacific is deemed to be from a World War II plane, not Amelia ... Gardner Island, now known as Nikumaroro Island, about 350 nautical miles southeast ...

Nikumaroro Island, Kiribati — Four bone-sniffing dogs that were brought to this remote Pacific island to search for traces of Amelia Earhart ... Howland Island—350 nautical miles northeast ...

A new forensic analysis suggests that bones found on the Pacific island of Nikumaroro in 1940—and subsequently lost—could very well have been those of Amelia ... and 350 nautical miles ...