Jackson Tooth

Jackson Tooth
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height	1215  m
location	Coatsland , East Antarctica
Mountains	Shackleton Range
Coordinates	80 ° 24 ′ 57 ″  S , 23 ° 15 ′ 42 ″  W Coordinates: 80 ° 24 ′ 57 ″  S , 23 ° 15 ′ 42 ″  W

The Jackson Tooth (English for Jackson tooth ) is a 1215  m high nunatak in the East Antarctic Coatsland . It towers at the west end of Pioneers Escarpment in the Shackleton Range .

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1971 after the British polar explorer Frederick George Jackson (1860-1938), who developed a pyramid tent in 1895, which later became the standard equipment for British polar expeditions.

Web links

• Jackson Tooth in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Jackson Tooth on geographic.org (English)