Scottish Geographical Medal

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.

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

• 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

• 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