It doesn't say 'Amelia Earhart in Japanese custody ... or that she made it to Nikumaroro island near Kiribati and died a castaway there. There is no conclusive evidence for either of these ...

He decided to go looking for Amelia Earhart. Gillespie’s belief that ... now one of the islands of the Republic of Kiribati. A thin deserted atoll in the South Pacific Ocean, Nikumaroro sits ...

Ocean explorers hoped they photographed Amelia Earhart's plane ... or near the remote Nikumaroro Island — part of current-day Kiribati — and died soon after as castaways.