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MAJOR FREDERICK GEORGE JACKSON, the Arctic explorer who died on March 13, was born in 1860 and educated at Denstone College and the University of Edinburgh. Attracted by an open-air life, he spent some time on a Queensland cattle ranch before the Arctic regions attracted his attention. A few months on a whaler in the Greenland Sea whetted his appetite and he offered his services to Nansen for the voyage of the Fram. But the Frame’s complement was full and so Jackson decided to organize his own expedition. His plan was to attempt to reach the Pole by sledging north from Franz Josef Land, beyond which he, among others, believed that there existed a land which Payer, in 1873, had called Petermann Land.
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B., R. Major F. G. Jackson. Nature 141, 585–586 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141585b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141585b0