Portal:Geography/Selected anniversaries/August


 * 3 August 1958 – First naval vessel to reach the North Pole, the USS Nautilus
 * 13 August 1935 – Formation of the Geographic Institute Agustín Codazzi
 * 13 August 1894 – Incorporation of Morrison, Oklahoma
 * 30 August 1844 – Birth of Friedrich Ratzel (pictured), German geographer and ethnographer