Check all the winners of Patron's Gold Medal presented under Gold Medal since 1850 .
Michael Palin('for the promotion of geography and geographical education\u2019) |
Alastair Fothergill('for promoting globally the understanding of the world\u2019s environments\u2019) |
Sylvia Earle(for the encouragement, development and promotion of ocean science and exploration) |
Jack Dangermond(\u2018for promoting geographical science through the development of Geographical Information Systems\u2019) |
Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford(\u2018for contributions to climate change policy\u2019) |
Jesse Walker(\u2018for the encouragement, development and promotion of coastal geomorphology\u2019) |
Paul Curran(\u2018for international development of geographical science through remote sensing and earth observation\u2019) |
Jack D. Ives(for his role internationally in establishing the global importance of mountain regions) |
Jean Malaurie(\u2018for a lifelong study of the Arctic and its peoples\u2019) |
Sydney Possuelo(\u2018For contributions to Brazilian people\u2019s rights and explorations in Amazonia\u2019) |
Harish Kapadia(For contributions to geographical discovery and mountaineering in the Himalayas) |
David Keeble(For advancing knowledge in economic and industrial geography\u2019) |
Reinhold Messner(For contributions to mountaineering and mountain regions) |
Crispin Tickell(For contributions to promoting the understanding of global environmental issues in governmental and wider public arena) |
Doug Scott(For contributions to mountaineering and the knowledge of mountain regions) |
Robin Hanbury-Tenison(For leadership of scientific expeditions, including the Mulu Expedition, and for his work on behalf of primitive peoples) |
Miezyslaw Klirnaszewski(For his contributions to geomorphology and international understanding in Geography) |
Kenneth Hare(For discoveries in Arctic Geography) |
Edmund George Irving(For services as Hydrographer of the Navy and for his encouragement of exploration) |
Joachim Kuettner(For explorations of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans.) |
Gordon de Q. Robin(For polar research and exploration) |
E. H. Thompson(Professor of photogrammetry and surveying, University College London) |
M. D. Gwynne(Leader, the RGS\u2019s South Turkana (Kenya] Expedition) |
Charles Swithinbank(For glaciological research and exploration) |
Haroun Tazieff(For volcanological research and exploration) |
Raymond Thorsteinsson, E. T. Tozer(For contributions to exploration and economic development in the Canadian Arctic) |
Augusto Gansser-Biaggi(For geological exploration and mapping in the Himalaya) |
Eduard Imhof(For contributions to cartography) |
Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith(For glaciological investigations in the Canadian Arctic) |
Lester C. King.(For geomorphological exploration in the Southern Hemisphere) |
Thor Heyerdahl(For geographical explorations in the South Pacific Ocean) |
Albert P. Crary(For Antarctic research and exploration) |
Tom Harrisson(Government Ethnologist and Curator Sarawak Museum, for explorations in Central Borneo) |
John BartholomewHonored for : The Times Atlas of World History(for contributions to cartography) |
Théodore Monod(For geographical exploration and research in the Sahara) |
Raymond Priestley(For services to Antarctic exploration) |
Edmund Hillary(For Antarctic and Himalayan exploration) |
George Binney(For contributions to Arctic exploration ... the pioneer use of the air survey technique \u2026 and to the development of the university exploring expedition) |
Charles Evans(For contributions to Himalayan exploration) |
James Simpson(Leader of the British Expedition to North Greenland) |
Neil Alison Mackintosh(For research and exploration in the Southern Ocean) |
Eigil Knuth(For exploration in Northern Greenland \u2026 and for his contributions to Eskimo archaeology) |
Paul-Émile Victor(For contributions to Polar exploration and for his geophysical investigations of the Greenland Icecap) |
Donald Thomson(For geographical exploration and studies in Arnhem land) |
Harald Sverdrup(For contributions to polar exploration and for oceanographic investigations) |
Hans Pettersson(For his leadership of the recent oceanographical cruise in the Albatross) |
Thomas Henry Manning(For exploration and survey work in the Arctic) |
Daniel van der Meulen(For exploratory journeys in the Hadhramaut, and his contributions to the geography of Southern Arabia) |
Henry Larsen(For his achievement of the North West Passage from both west to east and east to west) |
Halford Mackinder(For his long and distinguished service in the advancement of the science of Geography) |
Owen Lattimore(For his travels and studies in Central Asia) |
Isaiah Bowman(For his travels in South America and for his great services to the science of Geography) |
Sandy Glen(For his expeditions in Spitsbergen and North east Land) |
Hans Ahlmann(For exploration and glaciological studies in the Arctic) |
Eric Shipton(For his most distinguished record of mountain climbing) |
Lincoln Ellsworth(For his work in developing the technique of aerial navigation in the Polar regions, culminating in his successful flight across the Antarctic) |
Robert Ernest Cheesman(For explorations and surveys of the Blue Nile and Lake Tana) |
Willi Rickmer Rickmers(For long-continued travels in the Caucasus, culminating in his leadership of the Alai-Pamir Russo-German Expedition in 1928) |
Ejnar Mikkelsen(For exploration in the Arctic and his work in Eskimo resettlement in Greenland) |
Erich von Drygalski(For researches in glaciology in the Arctic and Antarctic) |
Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta(For work in the Himalaya) |
Richard E. Byrd(For his expedition to the Antarctic ... and for his flights over both North and South Poles) |
Carsten Borchgrevink(For his pioneer Antarctic Expedition, which was first to winter in the Antarctic, to travel on the Ross Barrier and to obtain proof of its recession) |
Charles Henry Karius(For his crossing in Papua from the Fly River to the Sepik) |
Hubert Wilkins(For his many years\u2019 systematic work in Polar Regions, culminating in his remarkable flight from Point Barrow to Spitsbergen) |
Lauge Kock(For his very remarkable six years\u2019 exploration of Northern Greenland) |
Edgeworth David(For his work on the Funafuti atoll and for his leadership of the first ascent of Mount Erebus) |
A. F. R. Wollaston(For his journeys in Central Africa and Dutch New Guinea) |
Frank Wild(For his long services to Antarctic exploration.) |
Staniforth Smith(For explorations in the unknown interior of Papua) |
Ernest de Koven Leffingwell(For surveys and investigations on the coast of Northern Alaska) |
Robert Bourgeois(For his long and eminent services to Geography and Geodesy) |
Jovan Cviji?(For his distinguished studies of the geography of the Baltic Peninsula) |
William Morris Davis(For his eminence in the development of Physical Geography) |
Jean Tilho(For his long-continued surveys and explorations in Northern Africa) |
Cecil Rawling(For explorations in Western Tibet and New Guinea) |
Frederick Marshman Bailey(For explorations on the border of India and Tibet \u2026 and especially for tracing the course of the Tsang-po- Brahmaputra) |
Filippo de Filippi(For his great expedition to the Karakoram and Eastern Turkestan) |
Alexander H. Rice, Jr.(For his meritorious work on the head waters of the Orinoco and the Northern tributaries of the Amazon) |
Edward Adrian Wilson(For his excellent work in the study of the zoology of the Antarctic ... and for his skill as an artist) |
Douglas Carruthers(For important expeditions to Ruwenzori, Turkestan, Arabia and Mongolia) |
Jean-Baptiste Charcot(For his important expeditions to the Antarctic, during which he conducted investigations of high scientific value in geology, meteorology, magnetic conditions and biology) |
William Speirs Bruce(For explorations in the Arctic and Antarctic) |
M G Talbot(For the large amount of excellent survey work done by him on the Afghan frontier and in the Sudan) |
Albert I, Prince of Monaco(For oceanographical studies off the coast of Spitsbergen) |
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 Passag) |
Robert Bell(Who during forty-five years of field work has mapped an immense area of Canada previously unknown) |
Charles Henry Dudley Ryder(For his survey of Yunnan and his work in connection with the Tibet Mission) |
Robert Falcon Scott(For his many valuable services towards the exploration of Africa) |
Otto Sverdrup(For important discoveries in Jones Sound and for the important part he played as captain of the Fram during Dr. Nansen\u2019s famous expedition) |
Percy Sykes(For journeys in Persia and for the support given by him to native explorers) |
Arthur Donaldson Smith(For memorable journey across the unknown parts of Lake Rudolf and the Omo) |
James McCarthy(For great services to geographical science in exploring and mapping all parts of the kingdom of Siam.) |
Fernand Foureau(For continuous exploration in the Sahara) |
Robert Peary(For explorations in Northern Greenland, and especially for discovering the northern termination of the Greenland ice) |
George Mercer Dawson(For exploration in the North West Territories and Alaska) |
St. George Littledale(For important journeys in the Pamirs and Central Asia) |
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston(For travels and researches in Persia, French Indo-China, the Hindu Kush, and Pamirs) |
Élisée Reclus(For eminent services rendered to Geography as the author of Nouvelle Géographie Univerelle) |
William Woodville Rockhill(For his travels and explorations in Western China and Tibet) |
Edward Whymper(For his route-map and detailed survey among the Great Andes of the Equator) |
Fridtjof Nansen(For having been first to cross the inland ice of Greenland ... as well as for his qualities as a scientific geographer) |
Francis Younghusband(For his journey from Machuria and Pekin to Kashmir, and especially for his route-surveys and topographical notes) |
Gustav Radde(For a life devoted to the promotion of Scientific Geography) |
Hermann von Wissmann(In recognition of his great achievements as an explorer in Central Africa) |
George Grenfell(For extensive explorations in the Cameroons and Congo) |
Guido Cora(For important services as a writer and cartographer) |
Henry E. O'Neill(For his 13 journeys of exploration along the coast and into the interior of Mozambique) |
Julius von Haast(For his extensive explorations in the Southern Island of New Zealand) |
Edward Colborne Baber(For scientific works during his many exploratory journeys in the interior of China) |
John Kirk(For unremitting services to Geography, as a naturalist, as second-in-command to Dr. Livingstone, and as H.M. Consul-General at Zanzibar) |
Benjamin Leigh Smith(For important discoveries along the coast of Franz-Josef Land) |
Ernest Giles(For his explorations and surveys in Australia) |
N. V. J. Gill(For important work along the Northern frontier of Persia) |
Henry Trotter(For services to Geography which resulted in the connection of the Trigonometrical Survey of India with Russian Surveys from Siberia) |
Nain Singh Rawat(For his great journeys and surveys in Tibet and along the Upper Brahmaputra, during which he determined the position of Lhasa and added largely to our knowledge of the map of Asia) |
John Forrest(For his numerous successful explorations in Western Australia) |
Julius von Payer(For explorations and discoveries in the Arctic regions) |
Peter Warburton(For his successful journey across the previously unknown western interior of Australia) |
Henry Morton Stanley(For his Relief of Livingstone, and for bringing his valuable journal and papers to England) |
Robert Shaw(For journeys in Eastern Turkistan, and for his extensive astronomical and hypsometrical observations) |
Alexander Keith Johnson(For distinguished services in the promotion of Physical Geography) |
Francis Garnier(For his extensive surveys ... from Cambodia to the Yatig-tsze-Kiang \u2026 and for bringing his expedition to safety after the death of his chief) |
Mary Somerville(Who throughout her very long life has been eminently distinguished by her proficiency in those branches of science which form the basis of Physical Geography) |
Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs(For his extensive travels in the interior of Northern Africa \u2026 and especially for his traverse of the continent from Tripoli to Lagos) |
Isaac Israel Hayes(For his expedition towards the open Polar Sea) |
William Chandless(For his Survey of the River Purus [South America]) |
Samuel Baker(For his vigorous explorations in the interior of Africa) |
Karl Klaus von der Decken(For his Geographical Surveys of the lofty mountains of Kilimandjaro) |
John Arrowsmith(For the very important services (in cartography) he has rendered to geographical science) |
Thomas Blakiston(For his survey of the Yang-tsze-Kiang) |
John McDouall Stuart(For very remarkable explorations in the interior of Australia) |
Francis Leopold McClintock(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) |
John Palliser(For the valuable results of his explorations in the Rocky mountains of North America) |
Alexander Dallas Bache(For extensive and accurate surveys of America) |
Andrew Scott Waugh(For geodetical operations, as remarkable for their extent as for their accuracy, whereby [India] has been covered by triangulation) |
Heinrich Barth(For his extensive explorations in Central Africa, his excursions about Lake Chad and his perilous journey to Timbuctu) |
Charles John Andersson(For travels in South Western Africa) |
Robert McClure(For his remarkable exertions ... in navigating his ship through the ice of the Polar Seas, and for his discovery of the North West Passage) |
Edward Augustus Inglefield(For his enterprising Survey of the coasts of Baffin Bay, Smith Sound and Lancaster Sound) |
Henry Strachey(For extensive explorations and surveys in Western Tibet) |
Thomas Brunner(For meritorious labours in exploring the Middle Island of New Zealand) |
John C. Frémont(For his important geographical labours in the far West of the American Continent) |
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