One of America's great unsolved mysteries is the disappearance of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, who vanished somewhere over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe in 1937.

The wreckage of her plane and her remains have not been found.

Now, a team of researchers from Purdue University is launching a new expedition in an effort to solve the mystery, focusing their efforts on a tiny, uninhabited island in the western Pacific.

The new search was announced on July 2, 88 years to the day that Earhart, 39, and her navigator, Fred Noonan, 45, vanished. It gets underway early next month.

Researchers will examine the Taraia Object, a visual anomaly located in a lagoon on Nikumaroro Island. Nikumaroro Island is part of the Republic of Kiribati,

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