It kind of looks like all this is now 'history'...if you pardon the pun.

The boreholes drilled by Bittlestone seem to confirm the fact that Paliki was once an island as late as the 1st century A.D. and, since it lies furthest west, is far more likely to be the Homerian Ithica than modern Ithica.

Moreover, the Homerian 'map' seems to fit Paliki better (twin headlands, beach, low-lying island with one large hill) and Bittlestone seems already to have located a possible site of Odysseus' palace (or city at least).

I'm just amazed that no-one has even suggested this before because modern Ithica never even came close to fitting the description of Homer. Surely no-one can take the existance of Odysseus' Palace at face value and disregard all the other 'evidence' as false. In other words, if the palace exists then so must a low-lying Island to the west...not a mountainous Island to the east.