Wonderful! For me, using Google Earth is less about finding a fuzzy picture of the Electra or even really referring to definitive facts, than it is about avoiding asking stupid questions and wasting people's time. If I can find a place on Google Earth people are talking about, or if it's already marked, it's a lot more impressionable on my memory than just vaguely talking about that place or linking to its Wikipedia notation.
Seven Site: 4°41'10.36"S 174°29'46.51"W
Village & Govt Stn.: 4°40'14.47"S 174°32'13.96"W
Norwich City: 4°39'36.52"S 174°32'42.36"W
Lae (obviously): 6°43'51.62"S 147° 0'16.81"E
Howland: 0°48'30.66"N 176°37'2.72"W
Nauru: 0°31'43.14"S 166°56'5.39"E
I think this is the channel they dynamited to evacuate the island? 4°40'36.98"S 174°32'20.25"W
I don't know where these are, or I can't find them:
-Underwater search areas by other searchers, I think NW of Howland.
-Plane found in a lagoon on some island other than Gardner. May not be a plane.
-Plane found by David Alan Atchason on Noumatong Islet. May not be a plane.
-In-flight positions reported by Noonan. Do we have any? I think Van Asten listed coordinates east of Lae at some point but I don't know if he used his math to make those up, or actual reports, or where they're from.
-Place Putnam thought the Electra was, NW of Howland, based I think mostly on clairvoyants' reports.
-Colorado's position from which search planes were launched.