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Credit Line:  Map and the data is fromTIGHAR, The Amelia Earhart Project,  https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/MapsandPhotos/maps/worldflight.html

Amelia Earhart's 1937
Around-the-World Tour

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There's more to life than being a passenger

Amelia Earhart

What's your call to adventure?
 

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Dakar

June 8, 1937

“...I really had intended to land at Dakar, 163 miles south of St. Louis. The fault was entirely mine. When we first sighted the African Coast thick haze prevailed. My navigator, Capt. Fred Noonan, indicated that we should turn south. Had we done so a few minutes whould have brought us to Dakar. But a left turn seemed to me more attractive, and 50 miles of flying along the coast brought us here."
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Bangkok

June 20, 1937 

"Bangkok itself lies in a vast plain with mountains in the distant background. After refueling at Bangkok (the airport was one of the best we encountered) we started for Singapore, more than 900 miles away...though we did not sight them, there were two transport lanes that day on the same route which we flew..."
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Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan on their world tour, 1937

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*Credit Line:  The  photos on this page are part of the Purdue University Archives, Life Magazine Collection, San Diego Air and Space Museum

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