Jackson Island (Russian: Остров Джексона, Ostrov Dzheksona) is an island located at 81.2297222° N 56.6288889° E. It is a part of the Franz Josef Land, Russia. Cape Norway ( 81°12′N, 55°37′E) on the western part of the island was where Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen wintered in 1895-96 after failing to reach the North Pole. A hut and a wooden post still remain. Location of Franz Josef Land (Map is annotated in German). ... Fridtjof Nansen Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (born October 10, 1861 in Store Frøen, near Christiania - died May 13, 1930 in Lysaker, outside Oslo) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat. ... Fredrik Hjalmar Johansen (1867 - January 4, 1913) was one of Norways most famous polar explorers and gymnasts. ... For other uses, see North Pole (disambiguation). ...
The island is named in honor of the Englishman Frederick Jackson, a polar voyager who explored several islands in the archipelago of Franz Josef Land. Its east-west extension is about 40 km, and 30 km from north to south. Frederick George Jackson (1860—1938), British Arctic explorer, was educated at Denstone College and Edinburgh University. ... Location of Franz Josef Land (Map is annotated in German). ...
On the northwest shore of the island is De Long Bay, separating the island into two almost even peninsulas. From the south this bay is bounded by Cape Bystrov, named in 1963 in honor of the Russian paleontologist A.P. Bystrov.
Map of Jackson Island (in Russian). Red arrow indicates the position of Bystrow cape.
Whilst the use of Goat Island as both a naval arsenal and a convict stockade were discussed during the late 1820s, the first use of the island was in 1831, as a sandstone quarry.
The island is believed to have been used for a period in that year as a bacteriology station, for the investigation of the major outbreak of bubonic plague in the nearby Rocks district, but firm evidence for this usage is lacking.
Over the following years until the mid-1920s, the island saw the construction of a harbour master's house on the highest point of the island, together with four cottages for married members of the fireboat crew stationed on the island, and a barracks for the unmarried members of the same crew.
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