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    The JacksonHarmsworth expedition of 1894–1897 to Franz Josef Land was led by British Arctic explorer Frederick George Jackson and financed by newspaper...
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    given the command of the JacksonHarmsworth expedition of 1894. Sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society, this expedition was to conduct general exploration...
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    join the JacksonHarmsworth Expedition, then in its third year in the Arctic on Franz Josef Land. This expedition, led by Frederick George Jackson and financed...
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    expeditions followed in 1896, Nansen's Fram expedition and the JacksonHarmsworth Expedition, which met by accident. These two journeys explored the northern...
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    reach the North Pole from Svalbard 1894–1897: JacksonHarmsworth expedition, led by Frederick George Jackson, explores Franz Josef Land hoping in vain to...
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    any expedition to date, and £5,000 came from Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe, who had earlier financed the JacksonHarmsworth expedition to the...
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    OCLC 38206817. Brice, Arthur Montefiore, and H. Fisher. "The Jackson-Harmsworth Polar Expedition, Notes of the Last Year's Work." The Geographical Journal...
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    Oblast, Russia. It was first reported and named in 1875 by the JacksonHarmsworth expedition. The British Channel separates the westernmost island group...
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    large landmass north of this archipelago. In the meantime the JacksonHarmsworth Expedition set off in 1894, set up a base on Bell Island, and stayed for...
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    of the 1894-1897 Jackson-Harmsworth expedition. Wilton had lived for some years in the north of Russia before joining the expedition. Ostrov Bromidzh...
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    meteorological station on the summit of Ben Nevis, before joining the JacksonHarmsworth Arctic Expedition to Franz Josef Land as a scientific assistant. Between 1897...
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    explorer. He participated in the JacksonHarmsworth expedition to Franz Josef Land and in the Discovery Expedition to Antarctica. Reginald Koettlitz...
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    needed] The JacksonHarmsworth expedition led by Frederick Jackson was the first to set foot on Alexandra Land in 1895. Cape Mary Harmsworth was named after...
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    Fridtjof Nansen and Frederick George Jackson took place here in 1896. Jackson was leading the JacksonHarmsworth expedition, based at Cape Flora, when this...
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    Benjamin Leigh Smith, discovered Zemlya Georga in 1880. The JacksonHarmsworth expedition established in 1897 that the land discovered by Leigh Smith...
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  • ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 11 May 2020. Savitt, Ronald. Legacies of the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, 1894–1897. Polar Record 43 (224): 55–66 (2007) The Furniture...
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    Fram (ship) (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
    bear meat and blubber. Finally meeting British explorers, the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition, they arrived back in Norway only days before the Fram also...
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    Armitage (1864–1943), Royal Navy Captain who was part of the JacksonHarmsworth Expedition, which explored Franz Josef Land and rescued Fridtjof Nansen...
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    arriving at Cape Flora, they gathered supplies left by the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, before sailing east, in an attempt to find a navigable path northward...
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    been used by Frederick George Jackson during the Jackson-Harmsworth Arctic expedition of 1894–1897. Despite Jackson's confused reports of his ponies'...
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    Royal Geographical Society, was the main sponsor of the 1894 Jackson-Harmsworth Polar Expedition to Franz Joseph Land. This is the place that Russian navigator...
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    among other geographical features, in Franz Josef Land. The Jackson-Harmsworth Arctic Expedition (1894–1897) was sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society...
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    Harmsworth, he also worked as a journalist. He traveled with and reported on Fridtjoft Nansen's Fram expedition and the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition...
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    Pole expedition, and named after American Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall. It was the first island of the Franz Josef group that the expedition discovered...
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    the expedition's scientific instruments. At Cape Flora most of the expedition were staying in the huts installed by the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition. Anton...
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    island was named by Frederick George Jackson after his brother Arthur Jackson, in the Jackson-Harmsworth Polar Expedition. 81°08′N 50°41′E / 81.133°N 50...
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    Bokhara. Between 1894 and 1897, he was second-in-command, of the JacksonHarmsworth expedition to Franz Josef Land, and was involved in the 1895 rescue of...
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    by the 1894-1897 Jackson-Harmsworth expedition reduced the supposed landmass of Zichy Land appearing on the maps considerably. Jackson sighted Ziegler...
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    Channel to check the existence of Harmsworth Island. It turned out that instead of the two islands shown on Jackson's map, there was a single landmass...
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    exploration – Newnes's great rival Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) had recently financed Frederick Jackson's expedition to Franz Josef Land, and had pledged...
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