| Date |
Name |
Contribution
|
| 1969 |
Rodolfo Panzarini
|
For services to Antarctic exploration and research and to international co-operation in Antarctic science
|
| 1968 |
W. Brian Harland
|
For Arctic exploration and research
|
| 1967 |
Villas-Bôas brothers
|
For contributions to exploration and development in the Mato Grosso
|
| 1966 |
Edred Corner
|
For botanical exploration in North Borneo and the Solomon Islands
|
| 1965 |
Fred Roots
|
For polar exploration and research, with special reference to the Canadian Arctic
|
| 1964 |
Louis Leakey
|
For palaeographical exploration and discoveries in East Africa
|
| 1963 |
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
|
For underwater exploration and research
|
| 1962 |
Erwin McDonald
|
For coastal explorations in the Bellingshausen Sea
|
| 1961 |
Mikhail Somov
|
For Antarctic exploration and research
|
| 1960 |
Phillip Law
|
For Antarctic exploration and research
|
| 1959 |
William Anderson
|
For the first trans-Polar submarine voyage in command of USS Nautilus
|
| 1958 |
Paul Siple
|
For contributions to Antarctic exploration and research
|
| 1957
|
Ardito Desio
|
For geographical exploration and surveys in the Himalayas
|
| 1956 |
John Giæver
|
Leader of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, for contributions to polar exploration
|
| 1955 |
John Kirtland Wright
|
For services in the development of geographical research and exploration
|
| 1954 |
The Lord Hunt
|
Leader of the 1953 Everest expedition
|
| 1953 |
Patrick Baird
|
For explorations in the Canadian Arctic
|
| 1952 |
Bill Tilman
|
For exploratory work among the mountains of East Africa and Central Asia
|
| 1951 |
Vivian Fuchs
|
For contributions to Antarctic exploration and research as leader of the survey of 1948–1950
|
| 1950 |
George Frederick Walpole
|
For contributions to the mapping of the Western Desert of Egypt
|
| 1949 |
Dudley Stamp
|
For work in organising the Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain and application of geography to national planning
|
| 1948 |
Wilfred Thesiger
|
For exploration of Arabian deserts
|
| 1947 |
Martin Hotine
|
For research work in air survey and cartographic work
|
| 1946 |
Edward A. Glennie
|
For work on geodesy in India and hcontributions to mapping in the Far East
|
| 1945 |
Charles Camsell
|
For contributions to the geology of the North
|
| 1944
|
No medals awarded
|
| 1943
|
No medals awarded
|
| 1942 |
Freya Stark
|
For travels in the East and her account of them
|
| 1941 |
Pat Clayton
|
For surveys in the Libyan desert and contributions to desert warfare
|
| 1940 |
Harold Ingrams
|
For exploration and studies in the Hadhramaut
|
| 1939 |
Arthur Mortimer Champion
|
For surveys of the Turkana Province, Kenya, and the volcanoes south of Lake Rudolf
|
| 1938 |
John Rymill
|
For the valuable scientific work of the British Grahamland expedition
|
| 1937 |
Clinton Gresham Lewis
|
For surveys in Iraq, Syria, and the Irrawaddy Delta, and for work on the Afghan and Turco-Iraq boundary
|
| 1936 |
G. W. Murray
|
For explorations and surveys in the deserts of Sinai and Eastern Egypt, and studies of the Badawin tribes
|
| 1935 |
Ralph Bagnold
|
For journeys in the Libyan Desert
|
| 1934 |
Hugh Ruttledge
|
For journeys in the Himalayas and leadership of the 1933 Everest expedition
|
| 1933 |
James Wordie
|
For work in polar explorations
|
| 1932 |
Gino Watkins
|
For work in the Arctic Regions, especially as leader of the British Arctic air route expedition
|
| 1931 |
Bertram Thomas
|
For geographical work in Arabia and successful crossing of the Rub al Khali
|
| 1930 |
Frank Kingdon-Ward
|
For geographical exploration, and work on botanical distribution in China and Tibet
|
| 1929 |
Francis Rodd
|
For journeys in the Sahara and studies of the Tuareg people
|
| 1928 |
Tom Longstaff
|
For long-continued geographical work in the Himalaya
|
| 1927 |
Kenneth Mason
|
For the surveys of India and Russian Turkestan, and leadership of the Shakshagam expedition
|
| 1926 |
Edward F. Norton
|
For distinguished leadership during the 1924 Everest expedition and ascent to 28,100 feet (8,600 m)
|
| 1925 |
Charles Granville Bruce
|
For lifelong geographical work in the exploration of the Himalaya and hleadership of the 1922 Everest expedition
|
| 1924 |
Ahmed Hassanein
|
For journeys to Kufra and Darfur
|
| 1923 |
Knud Rasmussen
|
For exploration and research in the Arctic regions
|
| 1922 |
Charles Howard-Bury
|
For distinguished services in command of the 1921 Everest reconnaissance expedition
|
| 1921 |
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
|
For distinguished services in the exploration of the Arctic Ocean
|
| 1920 |
Harry St John Philby
|
For two journeys in South Central Arabia
|
| 1919 |
E. M. Jack
|
For geographical work on the Western Front
|
| 1918 |
Gertrude Bell
|
For her important explorations and travels in Asia Minor, Syria, Arabia and on the Euphrates
|
| 1917 |
David George Hogarth
|
For explorations in Asiatic Turkey
|
| 1916 |
Percy Fawcett
|
For contributions to the mapping of South America
|
| 1915 |
Sir Douglas Mawson
|
For leading the Australian Antarctic Expedition which achieved highly important scientific results
|
| 1914 |
Albrecht Penck
|
For advancement of almost every branch of scientific geography, in particular the idea of world map on the millionth scale
|
| 1913 |
Not awarded
|
Inscribed casket presented to Lady Scott, containing the Patron's Medal and Special Antarctic Medal awarded to her late husband
|
| 1912 |
Charles Montagu Doughty
|
For remarkable exploration in northern Arabia
|
| 1911 |
Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov
|
For explorations in the Gobi desert, northern Tibet and Mongolia
|
| 1910 |
Henry Godwin-Austen
|
For geographical discoveries, surveys along the North-eastern frontier of India and in the Karakoram
|
| 1909 |
Aurel Stein
|
For extensive explorations in Central Asia, and in particular, archaeological work
|
| 1908 |
Boyd Alexander
|
For a three-year journey across Africa from the Niger to the Nile
|
| 1907 |
Francisco Moreno
|
For extensive explorations in the Patagonian Andes
|
| 1906 |
Alfred Grandidier
|
The veteran French savant who for forty years has devoted himself to the exploration of Madagascar
|
| 1905 |
Sir Martin Conway
|
For explorations in the mountain regions of Spitsbergen
|
| 1904 |
Sir Harry Johnston
|
For many valuable services towards the exploration of Africa
|
| 1903 |
Douglas Freshfield
|
In recognition of valuable contributions to knowledge of the Caucasus
|
| 1902 |
Sir Frederick Lugard
|
For persistent attention to African Geography
|
| 1901 |
Prince Luigi Amedeo
|
For a summit of Mount St Elias and for the Arctic voyage in Stella Polare
|
| 1900 |
Henry Deasy
|
For exploring and survey work in Central Asia
|
| 1899 |
Louis Binger
|
For valuable work within the great bend of the Niger River
|
| 1898 |
Sven Hedin
|
For important exploring work in Central Asia
|
| 1897 |
Pyotr Semyonov
|
For his long-continued efforts in promoting Russian exploration in Central Asia
|
| 1896 |
Sir William MacGregor
|
For services to geography in British New Guinea, in exploring, mapping and giving information on the natives
|
| 1895 |
Sir John Murray
|
For services to physical geography, especially oceanography, and for his work on board HMS Challenger
|
| 1894 |
Sir Hamilton Bower
|
For his remarkable journey across Tibet, from west to east
|
| 1893 |
Frederick Selous
|
In recognition of 20 years' exploration and surveys in South Africa
|
| 1892 |
Alfred Wallace
|
In recognition of the high geographical value of his great works
|
| 1891 |
Sir James Hector
|
For investigations pursued as Naturalist to the Palliser expedition
|
| 1890 |
Emin Pasha
|
For the great services he rendered to Geography during his twelve years' administration of the Equatorial Province of Egypt
|
| 1889 |
Arthur Douglas Carey
|
For his remarkable journey in Central Asia during which he travelled 4,750 miles
|
| 1888 |
Sir Clements Markham
|
In acknowledgment or the value or his numerous contributions to geographical literature
|
| 1887 |
Sir Thomas Holdich
|
For zeal and devotion in carrying out surveys of Afghanistan
|
| 1886 |
Adolphus Greely
|
For having so considerably added to our knowledge of the shores of the Polar Sea and the interior of Grinnell Land
|
| 1885 |
Joseph Thomson
|
For his zeal, promptitude and success during two expeditions into East Central Africa
|
| 1884 |
Archibald Colquhoun
|
For his journey from Canton to the Irrawadi
|
| 1883 |
Sir Joseph Hooker
|
For eminent services to scientific geography
|
| 1882 |
Gustav Nachtigal
|
For his journeys through the Eastern Sahara
|
| 1881 |
Serpa Pinto
|
For his journey across Africa during which he explored 500 miles of new country
|
| 1880 |
Louis Palander
|
For his services in connection with the Swedish Arctic Expeditions in the Vega
|
| 1879 |
Nikolay Przhevalsky
|
For successive expeditions and route-surveys in Mongolia and the high plateau of Northern Tibet
|
| 1878 |
Ferdinand von Richthofen
|
For his extensive travels and scientific explorations in China
|
| 1877 |
Sir George Nares
|
For having commanded the Arctic Expedition of 1875–6, reaching a higher northern latitude than had previously been attained
|
| 1876 |
Verney Lovett Cameron
|
For his journey across Africa from Zanzibar to Benguela, and his survey of Lake Tanganyika
|
| 1875 |
Karl Weyprecht
|
For his enterprise and ability in command of expeditions to Spitsbergen and Nova Zembla
|
| 1874 |
Georg Schweinfurth
|
For his explorations in Africa
|
| 1873 |
Ney Elias
|
For his enterprise and ability in surveying the course of the Yellow River, and for his journey through Western Mongolia
|
| 1872 |
Sir Henry Yule
|
For eminent services to geography
|
| 1871 |
Sir Roderick Murchison
|
For 40 years' of paternal solicitude over the RGS, placing it among the foremost of scientific societies
|
| 1870 |
George Hayward
|
For his journey into Eastern Turkistan, and for reaching the Pamir Steppe
|
| 1869 |
Adolf Nordenskiöld
|
For designing and carrying out the Swedish expeditions to Spitsbergen
|
| 1868 |
August Petermann
|
For his important services as a Writer and Cartographer
|
| 1867 |
Alexis Boutakoff
|
For being first to launch and navigate ships in the Sea of Aral
|
| 1866 |
Thomas Thomson
|
For his researches in the Western Himalayas and Tibet
|
| 1865 |
Thomas Montgomerie
|
For his great trigonometrical journey from the plains of the Punjab to the Karakoram Range
|
| 1864 |
James Augustus Grant
|
For his journey across Eastern Equatorial Africa with Speke
|
| 1863 |
Frank Gregory
|
For successful explorations in Western Australia
|
| 1862 |
Robert O'Hara Burke
|
In remembrance of that gallant explorer who with his companion Wills, perished after having traversed the continent of Australia
|
| 1861 |
John Hanning Speke
|
For eminent geographical discoveries in Africa, and especially his discovery of the great lake Victoria Nyanza
|
| 1860 |
Lady Jane Franklin
|
For self-sacrificing perseverance in sending out expeditions to ascertain the fate of her husband
|
| 1859 |
Sir Richard Burton
|
For various exploratory enterprises and the perilous expedition with John Hanning Speke to the great lakes in Eastern Africa
|
| 1858 |
Sir Richard Collinson
|
For discoveries in the Arctic Regions
|
| 1857 |
Sir Augustus Gregory
|
For extensive and important explorations in Western and Northern Australia
|
| 1856 |
Elisha Kane
|
For services and discoveries in the Polar Regions during the American Expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin
|
| 1855 |
David Livingstone
|
For his recent explorations in Africa
|
| 1854 |
William Smyth
|
For his valuable Maritime Surveys in the Mediterranean
|
| 1853 |
Sir Francis Galton
|
For fitting out and conducting an expedition to explore the centre of Southern Africa
|
| 1852 |
John Rae
|
For his survey of Boothia under most severe privations, and for his very important contributions to the geography of the Arctic
|
| 1851 |
Georg Wallin
|
For his interesting and important travels in Arabia
|
| 1850 |
Not awarded
|
Chronometer watch presented to David Livingstone for his journey to the great lake of Ngami
|
| 1849 |
Sir Austen Layard
|
For important contributions to Asian geography, research into Mesopotamia, and discovery of the remains of Nineveh
|
| 1848 |
Sir James Brooke
|
For his expedition to Borneo, and the zeal he has shown in promoting geographical discovery
|
| 1847 |
Charles Sturt
|
For explorations in Australia, fixing the limit of Lake Torrens, and penetrating into the heart of the continent
|
| 1846 |
Sir Paul Strzelecki
|
For exploration in the south eastern portion of Australia
|
| 1845 |
Charles Beke
|
For his exploration in Abyssinia
|
| 1844 |
William Hamilton
|
For valuable researches in Asia Minor
|
| 1843 |
Edward Eyre
|
For his enterprising and extensive explorations in Australia, under circumstances of peculiar difficulty
|
| 1842 |
Sir James Clark Ross
|
For achievement at the South Pole,to within less than 12°, discovering a great Antarctic continent
|
| 1841 |
Henry Raper
|
For excellent work on Practical Navigation and Nautical Astronomy
|
| 1840 |
Sir Henry Rawlinson
|
For researches in Persian Guayana
|
| 1839 |
Thomas Simpson
|
For tracing the hitherto unexplored coast of North America
|
| 1838 |
Francis Chesney
|
For valuable materials in comparative and physical geography in Syria, Mesopotamia and the delta of Susiana
|
| 1837 |
Robert FitzRoy
|
For his survey of the coasts of South America, from the Rio de la Plata to Guayaquil in Peru
|
| 1836 |
Sir George Back
|
For his recent discoveries in the Arctic, and his memorable journey down the Great Fish River
|
| 1835 |
Sir Alexander Burnes
|
For his remarkable and important journeys through Persia
|
| 1834 |
Sir John Ross
|
For his discovery of Boothia Felix and King William Land and for his famous sojourn of four winters in the Arctic
|
| 1833 |
John Biscoe
|
For his discovery of Graham's Land and Enderby's Land in the Antarctic
|
| 1832 |
Richard Lander
|
For important services in determining the course and termination of the Niger
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