Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Jackson Tooth (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Jackson Tooth (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Nunatak
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
W-most feature of Pioneers Escarpment (q.v.), Shackleton Range, rising to 1215m, in association with the names of pioneers of polar life and travel grouped in this area, was named after Major Frederick George Jackson (1860-1938), English Arctic explorer who in 1895 designed the essential features of the pyramid tent, later to become standard equipment on British polar expeditions; Leader of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition to Franz Josef Land, 1894-97 (APC, 1974, p.4; BAS 250P sheet SU 26-30/1, 1-DOS 1978).
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