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TIGHAR's research has produced a range of documented archaeological and anecdotal evidence supporting this hypothesis.

For example, in 1940, Gerald Gallagher, a British colonial officer and licensed pilot, radioed his superiors to inform them that he had found a " skeleton ... possibly that of a woman ", along with an old-fashioned sextant box, under a tree on the island's southeast corner.

He was ordered to send the remains to Fiji, where in 1941, British colonial authorities took detailed measurements of the bones and concluded they were from a male about 5 ft 5 in tall.

However, in 1998 an analysis of the measurement data by forensic anthropologists indicated the skeleton had belonged to a " tall white female of northern European ancestry.

" The bones themselves were misplaced in Fiji long ago and have not been found.