Nearing the end of her 1937 world flight, American aviatrix Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean as they were flying to this destination:

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Howland Island, an uninhabited U.S. territory halfway between Australia and Hawaii, was Amelia Earhart's intended destination when she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. The island is so small it only has four miles of coastline, thus making it difficult to locate by air, particularly when navigating manually, as Noonan was. The pair had only 7,000 miles remaining in the entire venture when they departed Lae, Papua New Guinea to begin the Howland Island leg of the flight.

Nearing the End of Her 1937 World Flight, American Aviatrix