When did Amelia Earhart end her journey?

Answer 1

She was supposed to land on Howland Island in the South Pacific on July 2, 1937, in the early morning. She had taken off from Lae, New Guinea, which was about 2500 miles to the West. The flight was supposed to last about 18 hours or so. She never landed at Howland and her plane was never seen by any of the Navy Personnel on the ship Itasca that was waiting to help with refueling. Radio contact was a problem during her flight. There was a lot of confusion about which radio frequencies she would be transmitting and listening on, and the times she would be transmitting. It seemed that she was not able to hear most of the radio signals from Itasca, although they could hear her. Radar was not in use at the time, and Earhart was depending being able to use a radio direction finder to home in on signals from Itasca, but according to what she said in her radio transmissions to Itasca, she was not able to use her direction finder. Fred Noonan was on the flight as her navigator, and he was one of the best in world. However, Howland Island is a very small island, and without GPS and radar, and with Earhart not being able to use her direction finder (it apparently was not working correctly), the job of finding a very small island after flying 2500 miles over open water was very difficult. The two most likely scenarios are that she ran out fuel and crashed into the ocean, or that she landed on Gardner Island, which is southeast of Howland, and died there of starvation, lack of water and/or exposure.