Frederick George Jackson at the age of 37. Portrait by Leslie Ward, 1897
Frederick George Jackson (Alcester, March 6, 1860 - March 13, 1938) was a British pole investigator who led the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition sponsored by the British Royal Geographical Society. The mission was to explore French Jutland. During this expedition, Jackson and his men met on June 17, 1896, Norwegian pole investigator Fridtjof Nansen and his companion Hjalmar Johansen who had been missing for three years and suspected of being deceased. The two Nores tried to reach Spitsbergen by kayak. Jackson told them that they were in fact in French Yugoslavia. With the help of Jackson, Nansen and Johansen could return home on board the ship Windward on August 7th. Jackson and his crew were overwhelmed in their camp as planned. The Jackson-Harmsworth expedition proved that French-speaking Jewish territories did not include any archipelago of small islands. In 1897, Jackson planted the British flag on Cape Mary Harmsworth after he was diverted from Cape Flora (Northbrook) to the northwest. Cape Mary Harmsworth is named after the wife of one of the chief financiers of Jackson's expedition, Alfred Harmsworth.
In recognition of his services, Jackson was arrested in the Norwegian Order of Saint Olaf in 1898 and received the gold medal of the Paris Geographical Association. The report of his experiences was published under the title Thousand Days in the Arctic (1899).
Jackson served in South Africa during the Second Boer War, where he acquired the rank of captain. During the First World War he was promoted to Major. He left the army in 1917.
Jackson also made a trip through the Australian deserts.
He was buried in St. Michael's St. Mary Magdalene Cemetery in Easthampstead (Berkshire). In the church there is a memory plaque. On this plaque is: Also see
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