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Lost Photos Discovered in Amelia Earhart Mystery

By ABC News

06/25/2013

(KAIR) -- A New Zealand museum has discovered lost photos of the island where some believe Amelia Earhart sought shelter after her aircraft crashed in the South Pacific in 1937.

According to ABC News, Matthew O'Sullivan, keeper of photographs at the New Zealand Air Force Museum, found the lost photos earlier this month.

This was confirmed by Richard Gillespie, executive director of the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery.

Gardner Island is the name of the island where some Earhart investigators believe the famed aviator spent her final days after her aircraft crashed in the South Pacific 76 years ago.

It is now called Nikumaroro island.

Gillespie says O'Sullivan compared the photographs to modern-day images of Nikumaroro Island from Google Earth to confirm they were of the same island.

Gillespie and his forensic analysis team are traveling to New Zealand on July 10 to investigate the photographs.

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