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Colossal crabs may hold clue to Amelia Earhart fate
- qubex 7y agoTL;DR: Some bones were found on an island infested with huge crabs where Earhart’s airplane might’ve executed an emergency landing, and subsequently lost. Now they’re searching to see if aforementioned crabs might’ve buried some of the bones that weren’t found (and that therefore haven’t been misplaced).
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- chrisdhoover 7y agoStill wondering what happened to Lindberg’s baby
- rsa4046 7y agoI've been there (Gardner Island). In the mid 1980s, as a grad student on an oceanographic research cruise dredging midocean seamounts for phosphorites in the equatorial Pacific, sailing from Pago Pago (American Samoa) to Funafuti (Tuvalu). Our ship (the Sonne, from Bremerhaven, Germany) anchored offshore and we took zodiacs in through the reef, which I remember as tricky to navigate without mishap. Strange, utterly lonely place. Saw the crabs, along with tons of sharks. Hot as Hades. We stayed for an hour or two, hiked around a bit, ate lunch by the lagoon, and left.