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|[[Lester Charles King|Lester C. King]] |
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| For geomorphological exploration in the Southern Hemisphere |
| For geomorphological exploration in the Southern Hemisphere |
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|1964 |
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|[[Louis Leakey|L. S. B. Leakey]] |
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|For palaeographical exploration and discoveries in East Africa |
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|[[Thor Heyerdahl]] |
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|For geographical explorations in the South Pacific Ocean |
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|1963 |
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|[[Jacques-Yves Cousteau]] |
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|For underwater exploration and research |
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|[[Albert P. Crary]] |
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|For Antarctic research and exploration |
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|1958 |
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|[[Paul A. Siple]] |
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|For contributions to Antarctic exploration and research |
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|Sir [[Edmund Hillary]] |
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|For Antarctic and Himalayan exploration |
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|1957 |
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|[[Ardito Desio]] |
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|For geographical exploration and surveys in the Himalayas |
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|Sir [[George Binney]] |
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|For contributions to Arctic exploration |
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|1954 |
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|Sir [[John Hunt, Baron Hunt|John Hunt]] |
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|Leader of the British Mount Everest Expedition |
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|N. A. Mackintosh |
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|For research and exploration in the Southern Ocean |
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|1951 |
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|[[Vivian Fuchs|Vivian E. Fuchs]] |
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|For his contributions to Antarctic exploration and his research as leader of the survey 1948-50 |
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|[[Donald Thomson]] |
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|For geographical exploration and studies in Arnhem land |
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|1948 |
|1948 |
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|[[Wilfred Thesiger]] |
|[[Wilfred Thesiger]] |
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|For exploration of Arabian deserts. |
|For exploration of Arabian deserts. |
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|[[Thomas Henry Manning]] |
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|For exploration and survey work in the Arctic |
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|1938 |
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|[[John Rymill]] |
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|For the valuable scientific work of his British Grahamland Expedition |
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|[[Eric Shipton]] |
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|For his most distinguished record of mountain climbing |
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|1931 |
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|[[Bertram Thomas]] |
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|For geographical work in Arabia and his successful crossing of the Rub al Khali |
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|[[Richard E. Byrd]], USN |
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|For his expedition to the Antarctic ... and for his flights over |
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both North and South Poles. |
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|1925 |
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|[[Charles Granville Bruce|Charles G. Bruce]] |
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|For lifelong geographical work in the exploration of the Himalaya … and his leadership of the Mount Everest Expedition of 1922 |
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|[[Sandy Wollaston|A. F. R. Wollaston]] |
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|For his journeys in Central Africa and Dutch New Guinea |
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|1918 |
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|[[Gertrude Bell]] |
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|For her important explorations and travels in Asia Minor, Syria, Arabia and on the Euphrates |
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|Commandant Jean Tilho |
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|For his long-continued surveys and explorations in Northern Africa |
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|1916 |
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|[[Percy Fawcett|Colonel Percy H. Fawcett]] |
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|For his contributions to the mapping of South America |
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|[[Frederick Marshman Bailey|Captain F. M. Bailey]] |
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|For explorations |
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|1910 |
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|[[Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen|Colonel H. H. Godwin-Austen]] |
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|For geographical discoveries and surveys along the North-eastern frontier of India, especially his pioneer exploring in the Karakoram |
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|[[William Spiers Bruce]] |
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|For explorations in the Arctic and Antarctic |
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|1907 |
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|[[Francisco Moreno]] |
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|For extensive explorations in the Patagonian Andes |
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|Captain [[Roald Amundsen]] |
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|For his daring voyage for the purposes of research in the region of the North Magnetic Pole, and for his first accomplishment by any vessel of the famous North-West Passage |
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|1902<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=Royal Geographical Society |day_of_week=Saturday |date=15 March 1902 |page_number=12 |issue=36716| }}</ref> |
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|Major [[Percy Sykes|Percy Molesworth Sykes]] |
|Major [[Percy Sykes|Percy Molesworth Sykes]] |
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|For journeys in Persia and for the support given by him to native explorers |
|For journeys in Persia and for the support given by him to native explorers |
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|1898 |
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|[[Sven Hedin]] |
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|For important exploring work in Central Asia |
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|[[Robert Peary|Lieutenant Robert E. Peary]], USN |
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|For explorations in Northern Greenland, and especially for discovering the northern termination of the Greenland ice |
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|1897 |
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|[[P. Semenoff]] |
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|For his long-continued efforts in promoting Russian exploration in Central Asia |
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|[[George Mercer Dawson]] |
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|For exploration in the North West Territories and Alaska |
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|1892 |
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|[[Alfred Russel Wallace]] |
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|The well-known naturalist and traveller and co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of the theory of natural selection, in recognition of the high geographical value of his great works |
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|[[Edward Whymper]] |
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|For his route-map and detailed survey among the Great Andes of the Equator |
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|1891 |
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|[[Sir James Hector]] |
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|For investigations pursued as Naturalist to the Palliser expedition |
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|[[Fridtjof Nansen]] |
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|For having been first to cross the inland ice of Greenland ... as well as for his qualities as a scientific geographer |
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|1873 |
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|[[Ney Elias]] |
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|For his enterprise and ability in surveying the course of the Yellow River, and for his journey through Western Mongolia |
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|[[Henry Morton Stanley]] |
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|For his Relief of Livingstone, and for bringing his valuable journal and papers to England |
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|1862 |
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|[[Robert O'Hara Burke]] |
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|In remembrance of that gallant explorer who with his companion Wills, perished after having traversed the |
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continent of Australia |
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|Captain [[Thomas Blakiston]] |
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|For his survey of the [[Yangtsze Kiang]] |
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|1861 |
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|[[John Hanning Speke]] |
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|For his eminent geographical discoveries in Africa, and especially his discovery of the great lake Victoria Nyanza |
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|[[John McDouall Stuart]] |
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|For very remarkable explorations in the interior of Australia |
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|1859 |
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|[[Richard Francis Burton]] |
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|For his various exploratory enterprises, and especially for his perilous expedition with Captain. J. H. Speke to the great lakes in Eastern Africa |
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|[[John Palliser]] |
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|for the valuable results of his explorations in the Rocky mountains of North America |
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|1855 |
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|[[David Livingstone]] |
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|For his recent explorations in Africa |
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|[[Charles Andersson]] |
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|For travels in South Western Africa |
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|1847 |
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|[[Charles Sturt]] |
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|For explorations in Australia, and especially for his journey fixing the limit of Lake Torrens and penetrating into the heart of the continent to lat. 24° 30'S, long. 138° 0'E |
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|[[Ludwig Leichhardt]] |
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|For explorations in Australia, especially for his journey from Moreton Bay to Port Essington. |
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|1843 |
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|[[Edward John Eyre]] |
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|For his enterprising and extensive explorations in Australia, under circumstances of peculiar difficulty |
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|Lieut. J. F. A. Symonds |
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|For his triangulation over Palestine and for his determination of the difference between the level of the |
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Mediterranean and the Dead Sea |
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|1842 |
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|Sir [[James Clark Ross]] |
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|For his brilliant achievement at the South Pole, to within less than 12° of which he safely navigated his vessels, discovering a great Antarctic continent |
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|Rev. Dr. E. Robinson |
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|For his valuable work ‘Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia’ |
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|1836 |
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|Captain Sir [[George Back]] |
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|For his recent discoveries in the Arctic, and his memorable journey down the Great Fish River |
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|1832 |
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|[[Richard Lander]] |
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|For important services in determining the course and termination of the Niger |
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|''First award'' |
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Revision as of 19:55, 17 August 2015
The Gold Medal presented by the Royal Geographical Society consists of two separate awards: the Founder's Medal 1830 and the Patron's Medal 1838. Together they form the most prestigious of the society's awards. They are given for "the encouragement and promotion of geographical science and discovery". Royal approval is required before an award can be made.
The awards originated as an annual gift of fifty guineas from King William IV, first made in 1831, "to constitute a premium for the encouragement and promotion of geographical science and discovery". The Royal Geographical Society decided in 1839 to change this monetary award into the two gold medals.
Recipients have included the notable geographers David Livingstone (1855), Nain Singh Rawat (1877), Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen (1878), Alfred Russel Wallace (1892) and William Woodville Rockhill (1893), to more recent winners including Professor William Morris Davis (1919), Sir Halford John Mackinder (1945), Professor Richard Chorley (1987) and Professor David Harvey (1995).
Recipients (1970 onwards)
Date | Founder's Medal | Contribution | Patron's Medal | Contribution |
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2015 [1] | Professor Michael Batty | for development and promotion of the geographical science of cities | Paul Theroux | for the encouragement of geographical discovery through travel writing |
2014 | Professor Geoffrey Boulton | for the development and promotion of glaciology | Hans Rosling | for the encouragement and development of the public understanding of geographical data and influencing decision makers across the world |
2013 | Professor Keith Richards | for the encouragement and development of physical geography and fluvial geomorphology | Michael Palin | for the promotion of geography and geographical education |
2012 | Professor Charles Withers | for the encouragement and development of historical and cultural geography | Alastair Fothergill | for promoting globally the understanding of the world’s environments |
2011 | Professor David Livingstone | for the encouragement and promotion of historical geography | Dr Sylvia Earle | for the encouragement, development and promotion of ocean science and exploration |
2010 | Professor Diana Liverman | encouraging, developing and promoting understanding of the human dimensions of climate change | Jack Dangermond | promoting geographical science through the development of Geographical Information Systems |
2009 | Dr Alan Baker | contributions to historical geography | Professor Lord Nicholas Stern | for contributions to climate change policy |
2008 | Professor Julian Dowdeswell | encouragement, development and promotion of glaciology | Professor Jesse Walker | encouragement, development and promotion of coastal geomorphology |
2007 | Professor Roger Barry | international leadership of research on climate and climate change | Professor Paul Curran | international development of geographical science through remote sensing and Earth observation |
2006 | Professor Derek Gregory | international leadership of research in human geography and social theory | Professor Jack Ives | role internationally in establishing the global importance of mountain regions |
2005 | Professor Sir Nicholas Shackleton | research on Quaternary palaeoclimatology | Professor Jean Malaurie | lifelong study of the Arctic and its peoples |
2004 | Professor Leszek Starkel | advancing international understanding of palaeohydrology and geomorphology | Sydney Possuelo | contributions to Brazilian people’s rights and explorations in Amazonia |
2003 | Professor Michael Frank Goodchild | contributions to geographical information science | Harish Kapadia | contributions to geographical discovery and mountaineering in the Himalayas |
2002 | Bruno Messerli | mountain research and the public awareness of mountain issues | Dr David Keeble | advancing knowledge in economic and industrial geography |
2001 | Professor William Graf | research on dryland river processes, and the interactions of science and public policy | Reinhold Messner | mountaineering and mountain regions |
2000 | Professor Brian Robson | urban geography and geographical perspectives to urban policy | Sir Crispin Tickell GCMG KCVO | promoting the understanding of global environmental issues in governmental and wider public arena |
1999 | Professor Mike Kirkby | development of processed-based and modelling approaches in geomorphology | Doug Scott, CBE | mountaineering and the knowledge of mountain regions |
1998 | Robert Bennett | David Drewry | ||
1997 | Sir Tony Wrigley | David Rhind | ||
1996 | John Woods | John Thornes | ||
1995 | The Earl of Cranbrook | David Harvey | ||
1994 | Ronald Urwick Cooke | Ghillean Prance | ||
1993 | Kenneth Gregory | John Blashford-Snell | ||
1992 | Alan Wilson | Martin Holdgate | ||
1991 | Andrew Goudie | Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad | ||
1990 | John Hemming | Richard Leakey | ||
1989 | Monica Kristensen | Keith Clayton | ||
1988 | Peter Hall | Nigel de N Winser | ||
1987 | Anthony Laughton | Richard J Chorley | ||
1986 | Timothy Severin | Peter Haggett | ||
1985 | David Attenborough | Walter Smith | ||
1984 | Ranulph Fiennes | Pierre Gourou | ||
1983 | Peter Scott | Commander John Young, NASA | ||
1982 | Michael Ward | Douglas Warren | ||
1981 | Keith J Miller | Valter Schytt | ||
1980 | William R Mead | Preston James | ||
1979 | David Stoddart | For contributions to geomorphology, the study of coral reefs and the history of academic Geography | Robin Hanbury-Tenison | For leadership of scientific expeditions, including the Mulu Expedition, and for his work on behalf of primitive peoples |
1978 | Major-General R. Brown | For services to the science of map-making | Miezyslaw Klirnaszewski | For his contributions to geomorphology and international understanding in Geography |
1977 | Michael Wise | For economic Geography, and for his contributions to international understanding in geographical teaching | Kenneth Hare | For discoveries in Arctic Geography |
1976 | Brian B. Roberts | For Polar exploration, and for contributions to Antarctic research and political negotiation | Sir Edmund Irving | For services as Hydrographer of the Navy and for his encouragement of exploration |
1975 | Sir Laurence Kirwan | For contributions to the geographical history of the Nubian Nile valley and Eastern Africa, and for services to exploration | Joachim P. Kuettner | For explorations of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans |
1974 | Christian J. S. Bonington | For mountain explorations | Gordon de Q. Robin | For polar research and exploration |
1973 | Norman L. Falcon | Leader, the RGS’s Musandam [North Oman] Expedition. For contributions to the geographical history of the
Persian Gulf region |
Edgar H. Thompson | Professor of photogrammetry and surveying, University College London |
1972 | George S. Ritchie | For hydrographical charting and oceanographical exploration | Michael D. Gwynne | Leader, the RGS’s South Turkana (Kenya] Expedition |
1971 | Sir George Deacon | For oceanographical research and exploration | Charles Swithinbank | For glaciological research and exploration |
1970 | Walter William Herbert | For Arctic and Antarctic exploration and surveys | Haroun Tazieff | For volcanological research and exploration |
Notable recipients (1832–1970)
Date | Founder's Medal | Contribution | Patron's Medal | Contribution |
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1965 | Ernest F. Rootes | For Polar exploration and research, with special reference to the Canadian Arctic | Lester C. King | For geomorphological exploration in the Southern Hemisphere |
1964 | L. S. B. Leakey | For palaeographical exploration and discoveries in East Africa | Thor Heyerdahl | For geographical explorations in the South Pacific Ocean |
1963 | Jacques-Yves Cousteau | For underwater exploration and research | Albert P. Crary | For Antarctic research and exploration |
1958 | Paul A. Siple | For contributions to Antarctic exploration and research | Sir Edmund Hillary | For Antarctic and Himalayan exploration |
1957 | Ardito Desio | For geographical exploration and surveys in the Himalayas | Sir George Binney | For contributions to Arctic exploration |
1954 | Sir John Hunt | Leader of the British Mount Everest Expedition | N. A. Mackintosh | For research and exploration in the Southern Ocean |
1951 | Vivian E. Fuchs | For his contributions to Antarctic exploration and his research as leader of the survey 1948-50 | Donald Thomson | For geographical exploration and studies in Arnhem land |
1948 | Wilfred Thesiger | For exploration of Arabian deserts. | Thomas Henry Manning | For exploration and survey work in the Arctic |
1938 | John Rymill | For the valuable scientific work of his British Grahamland Expedition | Eric Shipton | For his most distinguished record of mountain climbing |
1931 | Bertram Thomas | For geographical work in Arabia and his successful crossing of the Rub al Khali | Richard E. Byrd, USN | For his expedition to the Antarctic ... and for his flights over
both North and South Poles. |
1925 | Charles G. Bruce | For lifelong geographical work in the exploration of the Himalaya … and his leadership of the Mount Everest Expedition of 1922 | A. F. R. Wollaston | For his journeys in Central Africa and Dutch New Guinea |
1918 | Gertrude Bell | For her important explorations and travels in Asia Minor, Syria, Arabia and on the Euphrates | Commandant Jean Tilho | For his long-continued surveys and explorations in Northern Africa |
1916 | Colonel Percy H. Fawcett | For his contributions to the mapping of South America | Captain F. M. Bailey | For explorations |
1910 | Colonel H. H. Godwin-Austen | For geographical discoveries and surveys along the North-eastern frontier of India, especially his pioneer exploring in the Karakoram | William Spiers Bruce | For explorations in the Arctic and Antarctic |
1907 | Francisco Moreno | For extensive explorations in the Patagonian Andes | Captain Roald Amundsen | For his daring voyage for the purposes of research in the region of the North Magnetic Pole, and for his first accomplishment by any vessel of the famous North-West Passage |
1902[2] | General Sir Frederick Lugard | For persistent attention to African Geography | Major Percy Molesworth Sykes | For journeys in Persia and for the support given by him to native explorers |
1898 | Sven Hedin | For important exploring work in Central Asia | Lieutenant Robert E. Peary, USN | For explorations in Northern Greenland, and especially for discovering the northern termination of the Greenland ice |
1897 | P. Semenoff | For his long-continued efforts in promoting Russian exploration in Central Asia | George Mercer Dawson | For exploration in the North West Territories and Alaska |
1892 | Alfred Russel Wallace | The well-known naturalist and traveller and co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of the theory of natural selection, in recognition of the high geographical value of his great works | Edward Whymper | For his route-map and detailed survey among the Great Andes of the Equator |
1891 | Sir James Hector | For investigations pursued as Naturalist to the Palliser expedition | Fridtjof Nansen | For having been first to cross the inland ice of Greenland ... as well as for his qualities as a scientific geographer |
1873 | Ney Elias | For his enterprise and ability in surveying the course of the Yellow River, and for his journey through Western Mongolia | Henry Morton Stanley | For his Relief of Livingstone, and for bringing his valuable journal and papers to England |
1862 | Robert O'Hara Burke | In remembrance of that gallant explorer who with his companion Wills, perished after having traversed the
continent of Australia |
Captain Thomas Blakiston | For his survey of the Yangtsze Kiang |
1861 | John Hanning Speke | For his eminent geographical discoveries in Africa, and especially his discovery of the great lake Victoria Nyanza | John McDouall Stuart | For very remarkable explorations in the interior of Australia |
1859 | Richard Francis Burton | For his various exploratory enterprises, and especially for his perilous expedition with Captain. J. H. Speke to the great lakes in Eastern Africa | John Palliser | for the valuable results of his explorations in the Rocky mountains of North America |
1855 | David Livingstone | For his recent explorations in Africa | Charles Andersson | For travels in South Western Africa |
1847 | Charles Sturt | For explorations in Australia, and especially for his journey fixing the limit of Lake Torrens and penetrating into the heart of the continent to lat. 24° 30'S, long. 138° 0'E | Ludwig Leichhardt | For explorations in Australia, especially for his journey from Moreton Bay to Port Essington. |
1843 | Edward John Eyre | For his enterprising and extensive explorations in Australia, under circumstances of peculiar difficulty | Lieut. J. F. A. Symonds | For his triangulation over Palestine and for his determination of the difference between the level of the
Mediterranean and the Dead Sea |
1842 | Sir James Clark Ross | For his brilliant achievement at the South Pole, to within less than 12° of which he safely navigated his vessels, discovering a great Antarctic continent | Rev. Dr. E. Robinson | For his valuable work ‘Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia’ |
1836 | Captain Sir George Back | For his recent discoveries in the Arctic, and his memorable journey down the Great Fish River | ||
1832 | Richard Lander | For important services in determining the course and termination of the Niger | First award |
References
- ^ "2015 Medals and Awards". Royal Geographical society. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
- ^ "Royal Geographical Society". The Times. No. 36716. London. 15 March 1902. p. 12. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)