| The Mungo Park Medal is awarded by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in recognition of outstanding contributions to geographical knowledge through exploration and/or research, and/or work of a practical nature of benefit to humanity in potentially hazardous physical and/or social environments. It was founded in honour of the Scottish explorer Mungo Park. |
Check all the winners of Mungo Park Medal presented under Mungo Park Medal since 1930 .
Jock Wishart(In recognition of his involvement in the Old Pulteney Row to the Pole.) |
Rune Gjeldnes(In recognition of his record as one of the world\u2019s leading adventurers.) |
Ray Mears(In recognition of his work in adventure travel, and for his distinguished contribution to popularising geographical issues.) |
Norman Hallendy(In recognition of his distinguished contribution to the study of the people and landscape of the Canadian Arctic.) |
John Hare(For distinguished contribution to exploration) |
William Dalrymple(For outstanding contribution to travel literature) |
Julian Pettifer(In recognition of his outstanding contribution in promoting a greater understanding of the wider world through journalim and broadcasting.) |
Michael Asher(For desert exploration on foot and with camels.) |
Nicholas Crane, Richard Crane(For their journeys across Tibet, China, Afghanistan and Africa.) |
Keith L. Miller(In recognition of his leadership of the Karakoram Expedition.) |
Haroun Tazieff(For research and exploration of volcanoes.) |
Hugh Simpson, Myrtle Simpson(For research and exploration in Spitsbergen, Guyana and Greenland.) |
Marjory Penham(In respect of her contributions to the knowledge of African exploration.) |
George Band, Thomas Dempster Mackinnon(For Hamalayan Achievements: Everest and Kanchenjunga, 1933 and 1955., For Mountaineering and Exploration in the Himalayas, 1950-55.) |
Alain Bombard(In recognition of his scientific investigations into the value of sea food and his courageous exploit in crossing the Atlantic alone in a rubber dinghy.) |
Eigil Knuth(For outstanding exploration in Greenland, 1932-1952.) |
W. H. Murray(For his work in the two Everest Expeditions, 1950 and 1951.) |
Frank Fraser Darling(For his notable contribution to scientific knowledge of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.) |
E.B. Worthington(For his share in the work of the African Research Survey.) |
Lawrence Wager(For his work in Greenland and Mount Everest.) |
Freya Stark(For her explorations in Northern Persia.) |
Isobel W. Hutchison(In recognition of her researches in the Arctic.) |
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