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Amelia Earhart and Burry Port
Back in August 2020 I was lucky enough to visit a small harbour village
in South Wales UK by the name of Burry Port.
Burry Port is not well known outside of this area but is a place now that
welcomes day visitors in the over the summer months.
It has a charming harbour area and also a small lighthouse
and this will be the subject of another project later.
When visiting the harbour I found a small piece of history and
this is the story I relate to you here:-
The story of Amelia Earhart's first crossing of the Atlantic
Visit Date August 2020
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The story behind this unobtrusive item on the harbour wall is that It seems that on June 17th 1928 Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland and on June 18th, exactly 20 hours and 40 minutes later she landed here in this small Welsh port in a type of seaplane known as a floatplane. This made her the first woman to be flown across the Atlantic.
This is the Buoy that her seaplane named Friendship was moored to.
Being interviewed post landing Amelia said "Shultz did all the flying, had to. I was just baggage, like a sack of potatoes" she added "maybe someday I'll try it alone", a feat, of course, she later completed.
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