Gardner Island (Called Nikumaroro by the native people) is a beautiful coral reef atoll in the South Pacific. There have been various attempts to settle it over the years but with little success because of too little fresh water on the island.
In an area on the atoll's northwest side called the "Seven Site" a research team has found and cataloged artifacts such as flakes of rouge, a shattered mirror from a woman's cosmetic compact, parts of a folding pocket knife, traces of campfires bearing bird and fish bones, clams opened in the same way as oysters in New England, "empty shells laid out as if to collect rain water" and American bottles dating from before World War II, their heat warped bottoms showing they "had once stood in a fire as if to boil drinking water
The theory is that Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan crashed landed on Gardner Island during their attempted flight around the world in 1937. This has been one of the most fascinating mysteries of the past 100 years.
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) announced recently that in June 2012 they would begin a detailed search for Earhart's plane off the coast of the island.
The native name is Nikumaroro and the island belongs to the independent country of Kiribati....one of the poorest countries on Earth.
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