World : Search For Wreckage Of Amelia Earhart's Plane Comes Up Empty

Key points

• Searchers travelled to the remote Nikumaroro Island, part of Kiribati archipelago in the Pacific, to investigate the so-called Taraia Object, spotted in a lagoon in aerial imagery in 2020.
• In a statement released by Purdue University in the US state of Indiana, searchers said the anomaly was not a piece of plane wreckage but likely a collection of large trees.
• "While the Taraia Object did not prove to be what we hoped, the journey produced new discoveries, added to the world's knowledge of Nikumaroro, and wrote another extraordinary chapter in a story of discovery and exploration," he said.

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