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Search for Amelia Earhart's plane continues after Taraia Object expedition on Nikumaroro rules out latest hypothesis
Purdue University News, 2026. Purdue University Newsroom.
The expedition sponsors' announcement of 18–19 October 2026: the joint Archaeological Legacy Institute, Purdue Research Foundation and Purdue University team sailed from Tarawa on 6 October, spent seven days at Nikumaroro with four onshore, and found the Taraia Object to be a cluster of large tree trunks coated with carbonate-cemented coral sand, with one Y-shaped segment remaining; a steel tube about 30 inches long was recovered from the lagoon.
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Purdue University News (2026). Search for Amelia Earhart's plane continues after Taraia Object expedition on Nikumaroro rules out latest hypothesis. Purdue University Newsroom. https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/2026/Q4/search-for-amelia-earharts-plane-continues-after-taraia-object-expedition-on-nikumaroro-rules-out-latest-hypothesis/
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