Map showing Amelia Earhart’s last world-tour flight path from Oakland California through Papau New Guinea in 1937.

Amelia Earhart’s around-the-world flight path

Earhart began her flight

from Oakland on May 20, 1937.

She departed Lae,

Papua New Guinea,

on July 2, 1937.

U.S.

PAPUA

NEW

GUINEA

HAWAII

Equator

She planned to refuel on

Howland Island before

continuing the next day

on Honolulu.

HAWAII

Her last radio transmission

came as she tried but

was unable to find

Howland Island.

Howland

Island

Equator

Recent sonar images of the ocean

floor near Howland Island have

captured an image of what might

be Earhart’s aircraft.

PAPUA

NEW

GUINEA

180°

AUSTRALIA

1,000 MILES

Map showing Amelia Earhart’s last world-tour flight path from Oakland California through Papau New Guinea in 1937.

Amelia Earhart’s around-the-world flight path

Earhart began her flight

from Oakland on

May 20, 1937.

She departed Lae,

Papua New Guinea,

on July 2, 1937.

U.S.

PAPUA

NEW

GUINEA

HAWAII

Equator

She planned to refuel on Howland Island before continuing the next day on Honolulu.

HAWAII

Her last radio transmission

came as she tried but

was unable to find

Howland Island.

Howland

Island

Equator

Recent sonar images of the ocean floor near Howland Island have captured an image of what might be Earhart’s aircraft.

PAPUA

NEW

GUINEA

AUSTRALIA

180°

1,000 MILES

Map showing Amelia Earhart’s last world-tour flight path from Oakland California through Papau New Guinea in 1937.

Amelia Earhart’s around-the-world flight path

Earhart began her flight

from Oakland on

May 20, 1937.

She departed Lae,

Papua New Guinea,

on July 2, 1937.

U.S.

PAPUA

NEW

GUINEA

HAWAII

Equator

She planned to refuel on Howland Island before continuing the next day on Honolulu.

HAWAII

Her last radio transmission

came as she tried but

was unable to find

Howland Island.

Howland

Island

Equator

PAPUA

NEW

GUINEA

180°

AUSTRALIA

1,000 MILES

Recent sonar images of the ocean floor near Howland Island have captured an image of what might be Earhart’s aircraft.

Map showing Amelia Earhart’s last world-tour flight path from Oakland California through Papau New Guinea in 1937.

Amelia Earhart’s

around-the-world flight path

Earhart began her

flight from Oakland

on May 20, 1937.

She departed Lae,

Papua New Guinea,

on July 2, 1937.

U.S.

PAPUA

NEW

GUINEA

HAWAII

Equator

She planned to refuel on Howland Island before continuing the next day on Honolulu.

HAWAII

Her last radio transmission

came as she tried but

was unable to find

Howland Island.

Howland

Island

Equator

PAPUA

NEW

GUINEA

180°

AUSTRALIA

1,000 MILES

Recent sonar images of the ocean floor near Howland Island have captured an image of what might be Earhart’s aircraft.

Times reporting, The Earhart Project

Lorena Iñiguez LOS ANGELES TIMES