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WDQS | PetScan | TABernacle | Find images | Recent changes | Query:SELECT ?item ?year ?rationale WHERE { ?item p:P166 ?x. ?x ps:P166 wd:Q26837312. ?x pq:P585 ?time BIND(year(?time) as ?year) OPTIONAL {?x pq:P6208 ?rationale} } ORDER BY ?time ?item| Year | Name | Image | Description | Award Rational |
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| 1839 | Eduard Rüppell |  |
German naturalist and explorer (1794-1884) | For his travels and researches in Nubia, Arabia and Abyssinia |
| 1840 | Robert Hermann Schomburgk | .jpg) |
German explorer, botanist, and ichthyologist (1804-1865) | For his perseverance and success in exploring the territory and investigating the resources of British Guyana |
| 1841 | John Wood | Scottish naval officer, surveyor, cartographer and explorer; (1812-1871) | For his journey to the source of the Oxus and for valuable labours on the Indus | |
| 1842 | Edward Robinson | _cropped.jpg) |
American Biblical scholar (1794-1863) | For his valuable work Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia |
| 1843 | Julian Symonds | British Army officer and surveyor | For his triangulation over Palestine and for his determination of the difference between the level of the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea | |
| 1844 | Georg Adolf Erman |  |
German physicist | For important geographical labours in Siberia and Kamstchatka |
| 1845 | Carl Ritter | .jpg) |
German geographer (1779-1859) | For his important geographical labours |
| 1846 | Alexander von Middendorff |  |
Baltic German explorer and scientist (1815-1894) | For explorations in Northern and Eastern Siberia |
| 1847 | Ludwig Leichhardt |  |
German explorer of Australia (1813-1848) | For explorations in Australia, especially for his journey from Moreton Bay to Port Essington. |
| 1848 | Charles Wilkes |  |
naval officer and explorer from the United States (1798-1877) | the talent and perseverance he displayed in a voyage of four years for discovery in the Southern Hemisphere and in the Antarctic regions |
| 1849 | Charles von Hügel |  |
Austrian noble, army officer, diplomat, botanist, and explorer | For his enterprising exploration of Cashmere |
| 1850 | John C. Frémont |  |
American politician, explorer and military officer (1813–1890) | For his important geographical labours in the far West of the American Continent |
| 1852 | Henry Strachey | British explorer | For extensive explorations and surveys in Western Tibet | |
| 1853 | Edward Augustus Inglefield | _by_John_Collier,_1897_NPG_2500.jpg) |
British Royal Navy admiral (1820-1894) | For his enterprising survey of the coasts of Baffin Bay, Smith Sound and Lancaster Sound |
| 1854 | Robert McClure |  |
Royal Navy admiral and arctic explorer (1807-1873) | for his remarkable exertions in getting to Behring Strait early enough in 1850 (the same year he left England) to enable him, against great difficulties, to navigate his ship through the ice of the Polar Seas, for his survey of Baring Island, and above all, for his brilliant discovery of the North- West Passage. |
| 1855 | David Livingstone |  |
Scottish explorer and missionary (1813-1873) | For his recent explorations in Africa |
| 1856 | Heinrich Barth |  |
German explorer (1821-1865) | For his extensive explorations in Central Africa, his excursions about Lake Chad and his perilous journey to Timbuctu |
| 1857 | Andrew Scott Waugh |  |
British army officer and Surveyor General of India (1810-1878) | For geodetical operations, as remarkable for their extent as for their accuracy, whereby [ndia has been covered by triangulation |
| 1858 | Alexander Dallas Bache |  |
American scientist (1806-1867) | for his successful labours in carrying out the Great Coast Survey of the United States of America |
| 1859 | John Palliser |  |
British explorer | for the successful results of the exploration of large tracts in British North America by the expedition under his command during the years 1857-8 ; and more particularly for the determination of the existence of practicable passes across the Rocky Mountains within the British territories |
| 1860 | Leopold McClintock | _Leopold_McClintock_by_Stephen_Pearce_(2).jpg) |
Irish explorer in the British Royal Navy (1819-1907) | For the skill and fortitude displayed by him and his companion in their search for records of the lost Franklin expedition and for valuable coast surveys |
| 1861 | John McDouall Stuart |  |
British explorer (1815-1866) | For very remarkable explorations in the interior of Australia |
| 1862 | Thomas Blakiston |  |
British zoologist | |
| 1863 | John Arrowsmith |  |
British geographer | |
| 1864 | Karl Klaus von der Decken | AfrikaForscher.jpg) |
German explorer (1833-1865) | |
| 1865 | Samuel Baker |  |
British explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist | |
| 1866 | William Chandless |  |
Amazonian explorer, linguist | |
| 1867 | Isaac Israel Hayes |  |
United States explorer and physician (1832-1881) | |
| 1868 | Gerhard Friedrich Rohlfs |  |
German geographer, explorer, author and adventurer (1831–1896) | |
| 1869 | Mary Somerville |  |
British science writer and polymath (1780-1872) | |
| 1870 | Francis Garnier |  |
French Navy officer (1839-1873) | |
| 1871 | Alexander Keith Johnston | Scottish geographer | ||
| 1872 | Robert Barkley Shaw | English explorer | ||
| 1873 | Henry Morton Stanley |  |
British journalist and explorer (1841–1904) | |
| 1874 | Peter Egerton-Warburton |  |
British military officer, Commissioner of Police for South Australia and Australian explorer (1813–1889) | |
| 1875 | Julius von Payer | .jpg) |
Austrian mountain climber, painter, arctic explorer and nobleman (1841-1915) | |
| 1876 | John Forrest | .jpg) |
Australian explorer and politician (1847-1918) | |
| 1877 | Nain Singh Rawat |  |
Pundit who explored the Himalayas for the British | |
| 1878 | Henry Trotter | explorer | ||
| 1879 | William John Gill | English explorer | ||
| 1880 | Ernest Giles |  |
explorer (1835-1897) | |
| 1881 | Benjamin Leigh Smith |  |
British explorer and yacht racer (1828-1913) | |
| 1882 | John Kirk |  |
Scottish physician, naturalist, companion to David Livingstone and administrator in Zanzibar (1832-1922) | |
| 1883 | Edward Colborne Baber | British orientalist | ||
| 1884 | Julius von Haast |  |
German-born New Zealand geologist (1822-1887) | |
| 1885 | Henry E. O'Neill | Royal Navy officer | ||
| 1886 | Guido Cora | Geographer and cartographer | ||
| 1887 | George Grenfell |  |
Baptist missionary to Cameroon and explorer of Africa | |
| 1888 | Hermann Wissmann |  |
German explorer and administrator in Africa (1853–1905) | |
| 1889 | Gustav Radde |  |
German naturalist and explorer (1831-1903) | |
| 1890 | Francis Younghusband |  |
British army explorer | |
| 1891 | Fridtjof Nansen |  |
Norwegian polar explorer and diplomat; Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1861-1930) | |
| 1892 | Edward Whymper |  |
British mountaineer | |
| 1893 | William Woodville Rockhill | .jpg) |
American diplomat and Sinologist (1854–1914) | |
| 1894 | Élisée Reclus |  |
French geographer and writer | |
| 1895 | George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston |  |
British politician (1859-1925) | |
| 1896 | St. George Littledale |  |
English explorer | |
| 1897 | George Mercer Dawson | .jpeg) |
Canadian scientist (1849 – 1901) | |
| 1898 | Robert Peary |  |
explorer from the United States | |
| 1899 | Fernand Foureau |  |
French explorer, colonial administrator, and Governor of Martinique from 1908 to 1913 (1850 – 1914) | |
| 1900 | James McCarthy | Irish surveyor | For great services to geographical science in exploring and mapping all parts of the kingdom of Siam | |
| 1901 | Arthur Donaldson Smith |  |
American explorer (1866-1939) | |
| 1902 | Percy Sykes |  |
British general, diplomat and scholar (1867–1945) | |
| 1903 | Otto Sverdrup |  |
Norwegian sailor and Arctic explorer (1854-1930) | |
| 1904 | Robert Falcon Scott | _(cropped).jpg) |
Royal Navy officer and explorer | |
| 1905 | Charles Henry Dudley Ryder | British surveyor in India | For his survey of Yunnan and his work in connection with the Tibet Mission | |
| 1906 | Robert Bell |  |
Canadian geologist | |
| 1907 | Roald Amundsen |  |
Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole | |
| 1908 | Albert I, Prince of Monaco |  |
Prince of Monaco (1848-1922) | |
| 1909 | Milo Talbot |  |
British army officer, surveyor and collector, 1854-1931 | |
| 1910 | William Speirs Bruce |  |
Scottish marine biologist and polar explorer (1867–1921) | |
| 1911 | Jean-Baptiste Charcot |  |
French scientist (1867-1936) | |
| 1912 | Douglas Carruthers | British explorer and naturalist (1882-1962) | ||
| 1913 | Edward Adrian Wilson |  |
English polar explorer (1872–1912) | |
| 1914 | Alexander H. Rice, Jr. |  |
American geologist | |
| 1915 | Filippo De Filippi |  |
Italian physician, scientist and explorer | |
| 1916 | Frederick Marshman Bailey |  |
British political officer in India (1882-1967) | |
| 1917 | Cecil Rawling |  |
British general, explorer and author | |
| 1918 | Jean Auguste Marie Tilho |  |
French explorer and military personnel (1875-1956) | |
| 1919 | William Morris Davis |  |
American geographer | |
| 1920 | Jovan Cvijić | .jpg) |
Serbian scientist | |
| 1921 | Robert Bourgeois | French politician, military officer and geographer (1857-1945) | ||
| 1922 | Ernest de Koven Leffingwell |  |
American geologist and explorer (1875-1971) | |
| 1923 | Staniforth Smith |  |
Australian politician, explorer & civil servant (1869-1934) | |
| 1924 | Frank Wild |  |
British Antarctica explorer (1873-1939) | |
| 1925 | Sandy Wollaston | .jpg) |
British explorer and biologist (1875-1930) | |
| 1926 | Edgeworth David | .jpg) |
Australian geologist | |
| 1927 | Lauge Koch |  |
Danish geologist (1892-1964) | |
| 1928 | Hubert Wilkins |  |
Australian polar explorer (1888-1958) | |
| 1929 | Charles Karius |  |
Australian explorer, magistrate & civil servant | |
| 1930 | Carsten Borchgrevink |  |
Anglo-Norwegian polar explorer (1864-1934) | |
| 1931 | Richard E. Byrd |  |
American naval officer, explorer (1888-1957) | |
| 1932 | Prince Aimone, 4th Duke of Aosta |  |
Italian prince and navy officer (1900-1948) | |
| 1933 | Erich von Drygalski |  |
German geographer (1865–1949) | |
| 1934 | Ejnar Mikkelsen |  |
Danish explorer and writer | |
| 1935 | Willi Rickmer Rickmers |  |
German explorer | |
| 1936 | Robert Ernest Cheesman | British explorer | ||
| 1937 | Lincoln Ellsworth |  |
American explorer | |
| 1938 | Eric Shipton | .jpg) |
British explorer | |
| 1939 | Hans Wilhelmsson Ahlmann |  |
Swedish glaciologist and diplomat (1889-1974) | |
| 1940 | Sandy Glen | British explorer | ||
| 1941 | Isaiah Bowman |  |
American geographer | |
| 1942 | Owen Lattimore |  |
American scholar of Central Asia (1900-1989) | |
| 1945 | Halford Mackinder | .jpg) |
English geographer, academic, and politician (1861-1947) | |
| 1946 | Henry Larsen |  |
Canadian explorer | |
| 1947 | Daniël van der Meulen |  |
Dutch diplomat, explorer and writer (1894-1989) | |
| 1948 | Thomas Henry Manning | British-Canadian Arctic explorer (1911–1998) | ||
| 1949 | Hans Pettersson |  |
physicist | |
| 1950 | Harald Sverdrup | .jpg) |
Norwegian oceanographer (1888-1957) | |
| 1951 | Donald Thomson |  |
Australian anthropologist and ornithologist and Indigenous rights campaigner | |
| 1952 | Paul-Émile Victor |  |
French explorer | |
| 1953 | Eigil Knuth | Danish explorer, archaeologist, sculptor and writer (1903-1996) | ||
| 1954 | Neil A. Mackintosh | marine biologist (1900-1974) | For research and exploration in the Southern Ocean | |
| 1955 | James Simpson | British explorer (1911-2002) | ||
| 1956 | Charles Evans | British mountain climber (1918–1995) | ||
| 1957 | George Binney | Royal Naval Reserve commander | ||
| 1958 | Edmund Hillary |  |
New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist (1919-2008) | |
| 1959 | Raymond Priestley |  |
English geologist, British Army officer and military historian | |
| 1960 | Théodore Monod |  |
French naturalist and explorer (1902-2000) | |
| 1961 | John Ian Bartholomew | British cartographer (1890-1962) | ||
| 1962 | Tom Harrisson | polymath | ||
| 1963 | Albert P. Crary |  |
American geophysicist | |
| 1964 | Thor Heyerdahl |  |
Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer (1914-2002) | |
| 1965 | Lester Charles King | British geologist | ||
| 1966 | Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith | British geologist (1923-2012) | ||
| 1967 | Eduard Imhof |  |
Swiss cartographer and professor at ETH Zurich (1895-1986) and child of his father Eduard Imhof (1854-1924) | |
| 1968 | Augusto Gansser-Biaggi |  |
Swiss geologist (1910-2012) | |
| 1969 | Edward Timothy Tozer | paleontologist (1928-2010) | ||
| 1969 | Raymond Thorsteinsson | Canadian geologist | ||
| 1970 | Haroun Tazieff | .jpg) |
French volcanologist, geologist (1914-1998) | |
| 1971 | Charles Swithinbank | British glaciologist | ||
| 1972 | Michael Douglas Gwynne | biologist and botanical collector (1932-2012) | Leader, the RGS’s South Turkana (Kenya] Expedition | |
| 1973 | Edgar Hynes Thompson | British photogrammetric surveyor (1910–1976) | Professor of photogrammetry and surveying, University College London | |
| 1974 | Gordon de Quetteville Robin | Australian British glaciologist (1921–2004) | For polar research and exploration | |
| 1975 | Joachim Kuettner |  |
German-American scientist | |
| 1976 | Edmund George Irving |  |
Naval officer (1910-1990) | |
| 1977 | Kenneth Hare | Canadian geographer and climatologist (1919-2002) | ||
| 1978 | Mieczysław Klimaszewski | Polish geographer (1908-1995) | For his contributions to geomorphology and international understanding in Geography | |
| 1979 | Robin Hanbury-Tenison | English Explorer | ||
| 1980 | Preston E. James | American geographer | ||
| 1981 | Valter Schytt | Swedish glaciologist | ||
| 1982 | Douglas Ernest Warren | surveyor (1918-1993) | ||
| 1983 | John Young |  |
American astronaut, naval officer, test pilot and aeronautical engineer | |
| 1984 | Pierre Gourou | French geographer | ||
| 1985 | Walter Smith | English land surveyor | ||
| 1986 | Peter Haggett | .jpg) |
eminent British geographer and academic | |
| 1987 | Richard Chorley |  |
English geographer (1927-2002) | |
| 1988 | Nigel Winser | |||
| 1989 | Keith Clayton | British geographer and environmental scientist | ||
| 1990 | Richard Leakey | .jpg) |
Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician | |
| 1991 | Helge Ingstad |  |
Norwegian explorer | |
| 1991 | Anne Stine Ingstad | .jpg) |
Norwegian archaeologist (1918-1997) | |
| 1992 | Martin Holdgate | British biologist (1931 - ) | ||
| 1993 | John Blashford-Snell | British army officer and explorer | ||
| 1994 | Ghillean Prance | British botanist (1937-) | ||
| 1995 | David Harvey |  |
British geographer and anthropologist | |
| 1996 | John Barrie Thornes | geographer and geomorphologist | ||
| 1997 | David William Rhind | British geographer | ||
| 1998 | David Drewry | British scientist | ||
| 1999 | Doug Scott | .jpg) |
British mountaineer (1941-2020) | |
| 2000 | Crispin Tickell | .jpg) |
British diplomat, environmentalist, and academic (1930–2022) | |
| 2001 | Reinhold Messner | _(cropped).jpg) |
Italian mountaineer, adventurer and explorer | |
| 2002 | David Keeble | British economic geographer | ||
| 2003 | Harish Kapadia |  |
Indian mountain climber | |
| 2004 | Sydney Possuelo |  |
Brazilian explorer | |
| 2005 | Jean Malaurie |  |
French anthropologist and geographer | |
| 2006 | Jack D. Ives |  |
Canadian montologist | |
| 2007 | Paul Curran | British geographer, President of City University London | ||
| 2008 | H. Jesse Walker | American geographer | ||
| 2009 | Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford |  |
British economist and academic (born 1946) | |
| 2010 | Jack Dangermond | .jpg) |
US-american businessman and founder of ESRI | |
| 2011 | Sylvia A. Earle |  |
American oceanographer | |
| 2012 | Alastair Fothergill | .jpg) |
British producer | |
| 2013 | Michael Palin |  |
English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter | |
| 2014 | Hans Rosling | .jpg) |
Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker | |
| 2015 | Paul Theroux |  |
American travel writer and novelist | |
| 2016 | Bob Geldof | .jpg) |
Irish singer-songwriter and political activist (born 1951) | |
| 2017 | Lindsey Hilsum |  |
British journalist | |
| 2018 | Yadvinder Malhi |  |
Professor of Ecosystem Science at the University of Oxford | For world leading studies on the impact of climate change on tropical ecosystems |
| 2019 | Fiona Reynolds | British civil servant and academic administrator | For her contribution to environmental protection, conservation and the preservation of the British landscape | |
| 2020 | Michael T. Jones | _(8703730475).jpg) |
American businessman and software developer (1960–2021) | For his contribution to the development of geospatial information |
| 2021 | Rita Gardner | British geographer and academic | For the widespread advancement of geography across all its sub-disciplines through her Directorship of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) | |
| 2022 | Jane Francis | .png) |
British paleoclimatologist | For her contributions to the earth and environmental sciences |
| 2023 | Felix Driver | geographer | For his contributions to historical geography and to the Society |
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