What is it about?
Jackson developed a robust and strong expedition model based on comprehensive planning with a clear regard for the health of the expedition members; the article focuses on his ability to innovate and his commitment to scientific discovery. He was an innovator in the conservative expedition.
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Why is it important?
Jackson's efforts in this expedition were overshadowed by the chance meeting with Fridtjof Nansen who had been absent in the Arctic for 3 years. Unfortunately, Jackson's approach was based on ponies which led Antarctic explorers to use them without considering the differences between exploration in the Arctic and the conditions of the Antarctic.
Perspectives
This is one of several publications I authored in the POLAR RECORD on management and planning in polar exploration. I was attracted to Jackson because was an outlier of his contemporaries. He was viewed as sportsman which cast an unfair shadow on who he was and what he accomplished. Even in the polar literature has been given a secondary position based on the chance meeting with Nansen. While his confirmation that Franz Joseph Land was an archipelago was important, it was his approach to exploration that is of interest.
Ronald Savitt
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This page is a summary of: Legacies of the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, 1894–1897, Polar Record, January 2007, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0032247406005791.
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