Posted on 06/07/2010 3:05:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
On one of the show on the Travel channel they did them over an open fire and they said the meat was really sweet since they eat mostly coconuts.
At first, I thought you were talking about Amelia in that response.
I did a little research on the island they supposedly landed on. It was uninhabited at the time, but there had been a coconut plantation there in the last year or two with around a hundred people. The empty village would still have been there, with plenty of items lying around that would have been helpful in surviving. Also, there was the hulk of a wrecked freighter just offshore on the coral reef. They would have seen both these landmarks from the air.
Assuming the skeleton is Earhart’s the evidence is that she, at least, was able to get ashore and make some attempts at survival—the fire ring, improvising with the pocketknife. Why, then, did she stay in one place? It’s a small island, it would have been only a mile or two to the village, where they would have found shelter, tools to help them survive, and (as far as they knew) people. If she was able to get off the plane and swim ashore, she should have been able to make it to the other end of the island, even if injured.
And where was Noonan? Did he go down with the plane? Did he wander off somewhere else? Did he try to swim out to the wrecked freighter and get swept away by the current?
I’d like to believe they mystery is solved, but this was not a completely barren island. There were items there they could have taken advantage of. It just seems that they should have left more traces of themselves. A note, something.
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