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Search for Amelia Earhart's plane resumes after stormy weather

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A search for the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean has resumed after severe weather caused researchers to stop for several days.

A team has travelled to Nikumaroro Island, part of Kiribati, hoping to solve the mystery of the famed aviator's disappearance by investigating the so-called Taraia Object, spotted in the atoll's lagoon in aerial imagery.

The American pioneer vanished while attempting to circumnavigate the globe in 1937, spawning decades of speculation about her fate.

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