Shackleton

A surname from Old English.

Proper noun

  1. A surname from Old English.
  2. A ghost town in Chattooga County, Georgia, United States.
  3. Ernest Shackleton, British Antarctic explorer.

Origin

Habitational surname from a place in West Yorkshire, from an unattested Old English word *sċacol (“tongue of land”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Forms

Shackletons

Derived

Shackletonian