Expedition hopes to find aviator Amelia Earhart's plane on remote island
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The research team departed Kiribati's capital on Wednesday and hope to arrive at the suspected wreck site by Monday A team of researchers are on their way to a remote island to inspect what they think could be the wreckage of famed aviator Amelia Earhart's plane.
研究小组于周三离开基里巴斯首都，希望在周一之前抵达疑似沉船地点 一组研究人员正在前往一个偏远岛屿的途中，检查他们认为可能是著名飞行员阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特的飞机残骸。
The group, from the US-based Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI) and Purdue University, are expected to arrive at Nikumaroro Island in the Pacific Ocean by Monday in the hopes of solving the mystery of her disappearance.
来自美国考古遗产研究所（ALI）和普渡大学的团队预计将于周一抵达太平洋的尼库马罗罗岛，希望解开她失踪之谜。
The American pioneer vanished while attempting to circumnavigate the globe in 1937, spawning decades of speculation on her fate.
1937 年，这位美国先驱者在尝试环球航行时失踪，引发了数十年来对她命运的猜测。
The team are aiming to find what has been called the Taraia Object, first spotted sitting on the edge of a lagoon off Nikumaroro in satellite imagery in 2020.
该团队的目标是寻找所谓的塔拉亚天体（Taraia Object），该天体于 2020 年在卫星图像中首次被发现位于尼库马罗罗（Nikumaroro）附近的泻湖边缘。
Purdue University said the object had since been confirmed to have been visible in aerial photography of the area dating back to 1938.
普渡大学表示，该物体已被证实在 1938 年对该地区的航空摄影中可见。
The researchers are currently roughly halfway through their journey to the remote atoll aboard the Marin Mainiku, a Kiribati National Shipping Line vessel.
研究人员目前正乘坐基里巴斯国家航运公司的“Marin Mainiku”号船只前往偏远环礁，行程大约已过半。
They departed the capital of Kiribati on Wednesday to begin the 830-mile journey to Nikumaroro, which is also part of the multi-island country.
他们周三从基里巴斯首都出发，开始 830 英里的旅程，前往尼库马罗罗，尼库马罗罗也是这个多岛屿国家的一部分。
When they eventually arrive, they will have to navigate through a narrow gap created in the atoll's reef by the British in 1963 - the last time the island was inhabited.
当他们最终到达时，他们将不得不穿过英国人于 1963 年在环礁珊瑚礁上开辟的狭窄缝隙——这是该岛最后一次有人居住。
"Finding Amelia Earhart's Electra aircraft would be the discovery of a lifetime," Richard Pettigrew, head of the ALI and the expedition lead, said.
ALI 负责人兼探险队领队理查德·佩蒂格鲁 (Richard Pettigrew) 表示：“找到阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特 (Amelia Earhart) 的伊莱克特拉 (Electra) 飞机将是一生难忘的发现。”
A satellite image of the so-called Taraia Object in a lagoon on Nikumaroro Earhart had already successfully flown from California across South America, Africa and Asia in her Electra twin-engine plane when she arrived in Lae, Papua New Guinea on 2 July 1937.
尼库马罗罗泻湖中所谓塔拉亚天体的卫星图像 1937 年 7 月 2 日，埃尔哈特驾驶她的 Electra 双引擎飞机抵达巴布亚新几内亚莱城时，已经成功从加利福尼亚州飞越南美、非洲和亚洲。
From there, she and her navigator Fred Noonan had planned to travel towards Hawaii and then finally back to California.
从那里，她和她的航海家弗雷德·努南计划前往夏威夷，然后最终返回加利福尼亚。
But her plane vanished without a trace while trying to reach Howland Island, a remote, uninhabited coral island near Nikumaroro, to refuel.
但她的飞机在试图飞往尼库马罗罗附近的一个偏远无人居住的珊瑚岛豪兰岛加油时消失得无影无踪。
Earhart's disappearance spawned numerous theories - from a simple crash due to fuel exhaustion to more elaborate claims of interference.
埃尔哈特的失踪催生了许多理论——从简单的由于燃料耗尽导致的坠机到更复杂的干扰说法。
The official explanation is that the plane suffered communication problems while the two struggled to find the island, and Earhart eventually crashed into the ocean when she ran out of fuel.
官方解释是，两人在努力寻找岛屿时，飞机遇到了通讯问题，埃尔哈特最终因燃油耗尽坠入大海。
While this version of events is largely accepted, no physical evidence has ever been recovered.
虽然这个版本的事件已被广泛接受，但尚未找到任何物证。
Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while piloting her Electra plane in 1937 One theory is that Earhart unintentionally navigated to Nikumaroro, where she ditched her plane and died a castaway.
1937 年，阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特 (Amelia Earhart) 在驾驶她的伊莱克特拉 (Electra) 飞机时在太平洋上空失踪 一种理论认为，埃尔哈特无意中航行到尼库马罗罗，在那里她抛弃了飞机，不幸遇难。
Images of the so-called Taraia Object show what could be the remnants of a small aircraft sitting in shallow waters.
所谓的塔拉亚天体的图像显示，可能是浅水中一架小型飞机的残骸。
But some - including rival explorers - have expressed scepticism that this could be a plane, let alone Earhart's.
但一些人——包括竞争对手的探险家——对这可能是一架飞机表示怀疑，更不用说埃尔哈特的飞机了。
Ric Gillespie, who specialises in recovering historic aircraft wrecks, told news agency Reuters that the object looked like a tree that had fallen from the atoll into the nearby water.
专门从事打捞历史飞机残骸的里克·吉莱斯皮（Ric Gillespie）告诉路透社，该物体看起来像是一棵从环礁掉入附近水域的树。
"I'd love to find that airplane.
“我很想找到那架飞机。
It ain't gonna happen," he said.
这不会发生，”他说。
The researchers en route to the island credit Gillespie with previously finding evidence of a human presence on the atoll in the 1930s and forensic analysis of skeletal remains found there in the 1940s they say lend credence to their theory.
研究人员在前往该岛的途中相信吉莱斯皮之前在 1930 年代发现了环礁上有人存在的证据，并对 1940 年代在那里发现的骨骼遗骸进行了法医分析，他们说这些都证实了他们的理论。
But Gillespie suspects Earhart's plane had likely broken apart and its fragments carried into the depths of the Pacific long ago. Previous attempts to find her Electra have also come up short.
但吉莱斯皮怀疑埃尔哈特的飞机很可能早已解体，其碎片很久以前就被带入了太平洋深处。 此前寻找她的厄勒克特拉的尝试也未能成功。
In 2024, a group of researchers said they may have found it lying around 4,877m (16,000ft) below the surface near Howland Island through sonar imaging - but this was later confirmed to be a rock formation.
2024 年，一组研究人员表示，他们可能通过声纳成像发现它位于豪兰岛附近地表以下约 4,877 m（16,000 英尺）处，但后来证实这是一个岩层。
Similarly, an expedition in 2019, conducted by the marine archaeologist who discovered the Titanic wreck, to investigate a photograph of what might have been a landing gear protruding from the water near Nikumaroro also failed to find anything.
同样，发现泰坦尼克号沉船的海洋考古学家在 2019 年进行了一次探险，目的是调查一张可能是从尼库马罗罗附近的水面伸出的起落架的照片，但也没有找到任何东西。
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