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Amelia Earhart on Gardner Island?

I received an email with this unusual request ...

Dear Sirs,

I don't know if you are aware of tighar.org and its search for Amelia Earhart. If any of the people stationed on Gardner that you have contacted have anything to share in regards to Amelia Earhart, please have them send an email to ric@tighar.org.

Thanks,
Ed Croft

I went to the website http://www.tighar.org and found this on the Earhart project link

The case for Earhart and Noonan landing and ultimately dying on Gardner Island in the Phoenix Group – now Nikumaroro in the Republic of Kiribati – is strong. As detailed in TIGHAR Executive Director Ric Gillespie’s recently released book Finding Amelia – The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance (Naval Institute Press, 2006):

1. The island is on the navigational line Earhart said she was following in the last in-flight radio transmission heard by the Coast Guard cutter Itasca.

2. Dozens of radio distress calls thought to be sent from the missing plane were heard for three nights following the disappearance.

3. The plane’s manufacturer, Lockheed, confirmed that radio calls could only be sent if the aircraft was on land.

4. Directional bearings taken by Pan American Airways stations indicated that the distress calls were coming from the vicinity of Gardner Island.

5. One week after the disappearance, three airplanes launched from the battleship USS Colorado flew over Gardner Island. The flight leader saw “signs of recent habitation” but did not know that the atoll had been uninhabited since 1892. No search party was put ashore.

6. In 1940, a British Colonial Service officer found the skeletal remains of a female castaway at a makeshift campsite on a remote part of the island. The bones were later lost or misplaced, but measurements taken in 1941 were evaluated in 1998 by forensic anthropologists using current forensic databases. The results indicate that the bones belonged to a tall white female of northern European ancestry.

If any of the Gardner Island crew has information to offer, contact their point of contact, ric@tighar.org.

Joe