An update by the Amelia Earhart Project was in the news last night.
I checked their website and found some interesting satellite
photos. Personally, I'd rather the story of Amelia remain
an open-ended mystery. Looks like they think they are onto
something, but maybe it's just another false alarm...
bill
from the website:
Recent analysis of the satellite imagery and historical photos of
Nikumaroro has raised the possibility that the aircraft wreckage on the
reef supposedly seen by Emily Sikuli (see The Carpenter's Daughter) may
still be right where she saw it.
In 1999 Emily told us of seeing debris on the reef at Nikumaroro in 1940
or '41 which her father, the island carpenter, told her was the wreckage
of an airplane. Her story was particularly interesting to us because the
general location she described, the reef-flat off the western end of the
atoll, was where a variety of other anecdotes and evidence had already
led us to suspect that the Earhart airplane had been landed and
subsequently destroyed by the surf.
http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Bulletins/07_12_01%20Bulletin/Nik
usatphoto.html
