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On what date did Amelia Earhart's last radio transmission place her near Howland Island in the Pacific?
Earhart vanished on 2 July 1937 attempting the Howland Island leg of her round-the-world flight.
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The American Aviator Who Disappeared Over the Central Pacific on 2 July 1937 While Attempting the First Round-the-World Equatorial Flight Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared on 2 July 1937 between Lae, Papua New Guinea, and Howland Island. The Lockheed Electra was on the final third of a planned round-the-world equatorial circumnavigation. The largest naval search in US history at that point covered approximately 250,000 square miles but found nothing. The fate of the aircraft and its two occupants remains formally unresolved.
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