Joe Baugher describes an interesting history: The starboard maingear ran into the ditch and culvert that ran parallel to the runway, seen under the starboard wingtip and tore the main gear attachments off the spar! I was in Shamattawa for a couple of weeks shortly after the incident to remove engines, propellers, flight controls and equipment from IXZ.

After a few months with several different recovery crews sent in, the aircraft was dragged off the airport back into the bush where the hulk is still today.

Durham Region Transit (DRT) is the regional public transit operator in Durham Region, Ontario, Canada, east of headquarters are at Rossland Rd East in Whitby, Ontario, and there are regional centres in Ajax, Whitby, and was formed by the merger of Ajax/Pickering Transit, Whitby Transit, Oshawa Transit, and Clarington Transit.

Roosevelt’s report designated a marginal site at Cape Rammelsberg for later construction. In mid-October, trawlers Lark, Polarbjoern, and Selis reached the vicinity, but owing to inaccurate charts dating from the expedition of Charles Francis Hall could not find the Roosevelt site. Crowell was offloaded on a smaller island “about eight miles southeast of the headland Captain Roosevelt had recommended.

The expedition reported that “this island is reported to be some feet high and very level on top providing a natural runway of more than a mile in length. On 30 July, ships Polaris and Effie M. Morrissey anchored in what was then called Koojesse Inlet and began surveying the area: The harbor, readily accessible from the bay, offered a good anchorage for ships of any size that would come in. Having offloaded the airport construction crews and materials, the expedition left at the end of September.