Amelia Earhart WI

I was watching the movie Amelia yesterday with Hillary Swank as Earhart. Why did she take the route she did? I didnt know that the island existed until i searched for it at Google maps.

Couldnt she have gone over Japan and taken the land route from Alaska? Was the tentions already to big between Japan and the USA for her to try that way?

Maybe try to negotiate a deal with Russia and fly from Siberia to Alaska?
 
North Pacific weather--like North Atlantic weather--is generally terrible. They were more likely to get good weather island taking the route they planned (which required only a stop off at Howland, the next stop was Hawai'i then on to the US West coast directly) as they did in more equatorial regions than risking the chancier weather on a northern route.
 
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