Known as: Pilot Disappeared in: 1937 Last seen location: Lae, Papua New Guinea The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Amelia Earhart was a celebrated aviator whose final flight was a journey around the world that ended when her plane ran out of fuel as she and her navigator sought Howland Island, a coral atoll between Hawaii and Australia. The bones of a castaway found on the Pacific island of Nikumaroro in the 1940s were consistent with Earhart’s build, but they have since been lost.

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