Several batches of records related to the 1937 disappearance of famed aviator Amelia Earhart over the Pacific have been released by the US National Archives after President Donald Trump's recent order to declassify and release all such material held by the government.

The release of 4624 pages of documents, including log books of US military vessels involved in the air-and-sea search for Earhart, was announced by National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard.

Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were last seen taking off in her twin-engine Lockheed Electra aeroplane on July 2, 1937, from Papua New Guinea en route to Howland Island, some 4000km away, during an attempt to fly around the world.

Radio contact with the plane was lost hours later, after Earhart, 39, reported running low on

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