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The Scottish Geographical Medal is the highest accolade of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, awarded for conspicuous merit and a performance of world-wide repute. This was awarded first in 1890 as the Gold Medal, and from 1933 as the Scottish Geographical Medal. ^[1]

Recipients of the Scottish Geographical Medal (1933 – )

Source: RSGS

2022 Iain Stewart
2021 Roger Crofts
2016 Dr Rita Gardner CBE
2015 Dr Frederik Paulsen
2012 Sir David Hempleman-Adams LVO OBE
2011 Sir David Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS
2008 Professor Nigel Thrift
2006 Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB
2004 Professor David Lowenthal
2003 Professor Robert A Dodgshon
2002 Professor Sir Ron Cooke DSc
2001 The American Geographical Society
2000 Professor Kenneth J. Gregory
1999 Professor Colin Clarke
1998 Professor J Terence Coppock CBE
1997 Professor Eckart Ehlers [de]
1996 Gilbert M Grosvenor
1995 Professor Herman Th Verstappen
1994 Dr Denis St-Onge
1993 Professor Peter Haggett
1992 The Sierra Club, USA
1989 The Rt Hon The Lord Shackleton of Burley
1988 Professor Stig Jaatinen [fi]
1984 Professor J Wreford Watson
1972 George E R Deacon CBE FRS DSc
1969 Professor James Alfred Steers
1964 Professor Laurence Dudley Stamp CBE DSc LLD
1958 Sir Vivian Ernest Fuchs PhD
1954 Dr John Bartholomew MC JP FRSGS
1945 Professor Herbert John Fleure DSc
1944 James M Wordie
1933 The Baron Meston of Agra and Dunottar KCSI LLD

Recipients of the Gold Medal (1890 – 1927)

Source: RSGS

1927 John Mathieson FRSE FRSGS
1924 Dr Hugh Robert Mill DSc
1923 Professor John W Gregory FRS
1919 Rt Hon Field-Marshal Earl Haig of Bemersyde KT KCB
1915 Dr J Scott Keltie Kt LLD
1913 Professor Albrecht Penck
1912 Captain Roald Amundsen
1911 James Young Buchanan FRS
1910 Professor James Geikie DCL LLD FRS
1908 Dr Sven Anders Hedin
1906 HSH Albert, First Prince of Monaco
1905 Colonel Sir Francis Younghusband KCIE
1904 Dr William Speirs Bruce
1897 Dr Fridtjof Nansen
1890 Henry Morton Stanley MP

Recipients of the Scottish Geographical Medal (1933 – )

Recipients of the Gold Medal (1890 – 1927)

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