Jackson Tooth
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Jackson Tooth () is a nunatak rising to 1,215 m at the west end of Pioneers Escarpment, Shackleton Range. In association with the names of pioneers of polar life and travel grouped in this area, named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1971 after Major Frederick George Jackson (1860-1938), English Arctic explorer who in 1895 designed the features of the pyramid tent, later to become standard equipment on British polar expeditions.
This article incorporates text from Jackson Tooth, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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