JACKSON, FREDERICK GEORGE Brit ish Arctic explorer, was educated at Denstone college and Edin burgh university. His first voyage in Arctic waters was on a whaling-cruise in 1886-87, and in 1893 he made a sledge-journey of 3,00o miles across the frozen tundra of Siberia between the Ob and the Pechora. On his return, he was given the command of the Jackson-Harmsworth Arctic expedition which was to explore Franz Josef Land. He received a knighthood of the first class of the Danish Royal Order of St. Olaf in 1898. He obtained the rank of Captain during the Boer War. He also
travelled across the Australian deserts. During the World War he served in the East Surrey Regiment, and after being invalided home was for some time in command of the Southwark recruiting district. In 1919 he was in charge of Russian prison camps in Hanover and Westphalia. Later he explored widely in Africa.
He wrote The Great Frozen Land (1895), describing his first Arctic journey ; and A Thousand Days in the Arctic (1899), describing the expedition, and many articles in scientific journals.