Amelia Earhart
Certain names have become synonymous with mystery,and Amelia Earhart is a prime example. Her goal of flying around the globe at the equator held the world’s attention, but her disappearance intrigued it even more. The year was 1937, and Earhart’s mission was nearing completion, about 22,000 miles flown and 7,000 ahead. Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan took off from New Guinea, heading for tiny Howland Island where an American ship awaited them. Earhart lost communication with the ship during the flight and never arrived.
Searches for Earhart and Noonan were conducted, but neither they nor their plane was ever found. The wildest theories have Earhart landing elsewhere and assuming a new identity or being captured by the Japanese as a secret American spy. Many believe the plane ran out offuel, resulting in Earhart and Noonan’s death at sea, but recent findings support a different possibility. A piece of metal found in 1991 on an island in Kirbati was confirmed as part of her plane just last year. The search for more evidence there continues, giving hope that this decades-old mystery may yet be solved.
Language Lab
synonymous adj.
/səˈnɑːnəməs/
— often + with
having the same meaning
- Wealth and fame are not necessarily synonymous with happiness.
synonym n.
/ˈsɪnəˌnɪm/
a word that has the same meaning as another word in the same language
- "Shy" and "timid" are synonyms.
navigator n.
a person who finds out how to get to a place : a person who navigates a ship, an airplane, etc.
- Jacob is a skillful navigator who has an excellent sense of direction.
navigate v.
to find the way to get to a place when you are traveling in a ship, airplane, car, etc.
- Our captain safely navigated the ship out of this icy area.
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