History Facts & Stories on Instagram: "On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan departed from Lae, Papua New Guinea, in their twin-engine Lockheed Electra on one of the last legs of their attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Their next destination was Howland Island, a tiny strip of land in the Pacific Ocean less than two miles long. U.S. Coast Guard ship Itasca was stationed there to provide radio contact, but Earhart’s transmissions grew increasingly frantic as fuel ran lo