# Gallagher's report and telegrams on the Gardner Island finds, 1940

> The settlement officer's account of the skull and partial skeleton, the sextant box, shoe parts and a bottle; the earliest record of the bones and of…

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# Gallagher's report and telegrams on the Gardner Island finds, 1940

DocumentPublic domainOctober–December 1940

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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/Gallagher_Report.html).

The settlement officer's account of the skull and partial skeleton, the sextant box, shoe parts and a bottle; the earliest record of the bones and of where they lay.

TIGHAR (Research Document 13), 1940. Public domain

## Copies 1

**Transcription** TIGHAR (Research Document 13) · tighar.org · public-domain (a colonial officer's official report; the transcription is TIGHAR's)Primary source: [Gallagher's Ninth Progress Report, October–December 1940 (Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CYPMCJ602ZC/gallaghers-ninth-progress-report-octoberdecember-1940)2 steps from the original

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

## Where it was made

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

## Sources 1

- [Gallagher's Ninth Progress Report, October–December 1940 (Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CYPMCJ602ZC/gallaghers-ninth-progress-report-octoberdecember-1940)_SRC_

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Gallagher's report and telegrams on the Gardner Island finds, 1940 [Artifact ART0CYPN4ZE68XC]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0CYPN4ZE68XC
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Western Pacific High Commission records (as transcribed by TIGHAR)

Dated

October–December 1940

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public-domain (a colonial officer's official report; the transcription is TIGHAR's)

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

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