A little Googling led me to the Discovery Channel website, which claims that a sexton box was found on Nikumaroro in 1940 along with the partial skeleton. The serial numbers were consistent with the type carried by Fred Noonan, Earhart’s navigator.
There may be a lot that was found in 1940 and in the expeditions from 1990 to the present that are screamingly inconsistent with Earhart, which aren’t being disclosed because they ruin a good story.
What is being told, however, paints as reasonable a picture of the place where Earhart ‘disappeared’ as any other I’ve heard.
For years, there was the story of Earhart and Noonan being buried on some island by the Japanese. Some years ago, a research team dug up those sites until they hit bedrock. They didn’t find any human remains.
You mean a 'sextant'?
A sexton box - wow - and a female one at that :o)