# The Gardner Island bones (thirteen bones and a skull)

> Searches of the Fiji School of Medicine stores have not found them.

Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/artifacts/ART0CYPN3GJ45MR/the-gardner-island-bones-thirteen-bones-and-a-skull  
Publisher: Mysteries Department  
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page)  

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**ART** 0CYPN3GJ45MR·Artifact · sample

# The Gardner Island bones (thirteen bones and a skull)

SamplepublisherFound September–December 1940; examined 4 April 1941

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**Not kept here.** This copy isn't ours to show. [See it where it's published](https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Bones_Chronology.html).

Searches of the Fiji School of Medicine stores have not found them.

TIGHAR, 1940. publisher

## Copies 1

**Transcription** TIGHAR · tighar.org · publisherPrimary source: [The Bones Chronology: the Western Pacific High Commission file on the Gardner Island bones, 1940–1941 (including D. W. Hoodless's report of 4 April 1941)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CYPMCT04JRA/the-bones-chronology-the-western-pacific-high-commission)2 steps from the original

[Where it's published](https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Bones_Chronology.html)

## Where it was made

[Nikumaroro (Gardner Island), Phoenix Islands, Kiribati](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CYPMG7C2KMT/nikumaroro-gardner-island-phoenix-islands-kiribati) · Atoll

## Sources 2

- [Gallagher's Ninth Progress Report, October–December 1940 (Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CYPMCJ602ZC/gallaghers-ninth-progress-report-octoberdecember-1940)_SRC_
- [The Bones Chronology: the Western Pacific High Commission file on the Gardner Island bones, 1940–1941 (including D. W. Hoodless's report of 4 April 1941)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CYPMCT04JRA/the-bones-chronology-the-western-pacific-high-commission)_SRC_

## Cite it

```
Mysteries Department. (2026). The Gardner Island bones (thirteen bones and a skull) [Artifact ART0CYPN3GJ45MR]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0CYPN3GJ45MR
```

Key

**ART** 0CYPN3GJ45MR

Kind

Sample

Held by

lost (last recorded at the Central Medical School, Suva, 1941)

Dated

found September–December 1940; examined 4 April 1941

Licence

publisher

Place

[Nikumaroro (Gardner Island), Phoenix Islands, Kiribati](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CYPMG7C2KMT/nikumaroro-gardner-island-phoenix-islands-kiribati)

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[Disappearance of Amelia Earhart](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart)

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