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The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences, the society has 16,000 [ 1 ] members, with its work reaching the public through publications ...
Royal Geographical Society of Queensland; Royal Geographical Society of South Australia; Belgium. Société Royale Belge de Géographie; Canada
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Audubon Terrace became the society's most prominent home and was visited by many scholars and dignitaries, including President Woodrow Wilson. After numerous relocations across New York City, the AGS is currently housed at 121 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan. The AGS was awarded the Scottish Geographical Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society ...
[11] [12] He was awarded the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1919. [ 13 ] His textbook, Elementary Physical Geography (1902), includes a chapter entitled "The Distribution of Plants, Animals, and Man," in which Davis details how the physical geography of landscapes influences "the progress of man from the savage toward the ...
In January 1921 the Alpine Club and the Royal Geographical Society (of which Younghusband was now President) jointly set up the Mount Everest Committee to co-ordinate and fund the expedition. [ 4 ] [ 9 ] [ 5 ] Although they initially supported an all-out attempt at the summit, members of the committee eventually agreed that the primary purpose ...
The Back Award, also referred to as the Back Grant, was first given by the Royal Geographical Society in 1882 for "applied or scientific geographical studies which make an outstanding contribution to the development of national or international public policy" [1] It is named after the notable Arctic explorer Admiral Sir George Back.
Edward Ayearst Reeves (9 February 1862 – 17 October 1945) was a British geographer, astronomer, and cartographer.He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society beginning in 1896, [2] a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society from 1900, [3] and won the 1922 Cullum Geographical Medal and 1928 Victoria Medal.