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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 COMMUNITY 1B FINDING AMELIA DON’T LOOK UP DENALI A viatrix Amelia Earhart (pictured) may or may not have passed through Astoria on a road trip to Canada in the 1920s, but she, her navigator, Fred NoonanDQGWKHLU/RFNKHHG(OHFWUDSODQHGH¿- QLWHO\GLGGLVDSSHDULQGXULQJDURXQGWKHZRUOGÀLJKW The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) believes they know what happened: The duo were off FRXUVHEXWODQGHGVDIHO\RQDUHHIDURXQGDQXQLQKDELWHG3DFL¿F atoll, Gardner Island, now known as Nikumaroro7KHLU GLVWUHVV calls were not heard, and waves tipped the plane into deep water, PDNLQJLWLQYLVLEOHIURPWKHVN\7KHSDLUGLHGDVFDVWDZD\VWKHLU UHPDLQVVFDWWHUHGE\ODQGFUDEV 7,*+$5KDVEHHQWU\LQJWRSURYHWKLVWKHRU\VLQFH7KH\ have sent several expeditions to Nikumaroro, but “no single conclu- sive artifact has yet been found,” according to their website, http:// WLJKDURUJ:KLFKLVZK\WKHUHLVDQH[WHQVLYHH[SHGLWLRQJRLQJRQ right now, especially to investigate the “Bevington Object,” some- thing protruding from the water on the island’s western reef, believed WREHSDUWRID/RFNKHHGODQGLQJJHDUKWWSWLQ\XUOFRPEHYREMHFW 7KHREMHFWLVQDPHGDIWHU%ULWLVK&RORQLDO6HUYLFHRI¿FHU(ULF5 %HYLQJWRQZKRSKRWRJUDSKHGWKHSURWUXVLRQWKUHHPRQWKVDIWHU(DU- hart disappeared, but didn’t realize the importance of what he was FDSWXULQJRQ¿OP,WWRRNIRUHQVLFLPDJLQJVSHFLDOLVW-HII*OLFNPDQ WRVSRWWKHDQRPDO\LQWKHSKRWRLQ([SHGLWLRQVVLQFHWKHQ KDYHSURGXFHGLQFRQFOXVLYHUHVXOWV This time TIGHAR is going all out, with an operated underwater YHKLFOH529DWHDPRI6&8%$GLYHUVDQGDQRQVKRUHWHDPZKR ZLOOGRDJULGPDSVHDUFKIRUVLJQVRIDVXUYLYDOFDPS:DQWWRWDJ DORQJ"'DLO\UHSRUWVFDQEHIRXQGDWKWWSWLQ\XUOFRP¿QGDPHOLD,I WKH\¿QGVRPHWKLQJ\RX¶OOEHDPRQJWKH¿UVWWRNQRZWKHDQVZHUWR RQHRIDYLDWLRQ¶VHQGXULQJP\VWHULHV ASTORIA GETS A MENTION. 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