The Victoria Medal is an award presented by the Royal Geographical Society. It is awarded "for conspicuous merit in research in geography" and has been given since 1902, in honour of the late Queen Victoria. Up until then, the society's Patron's Medal had alternatively been known as the "Victoria Medal", and the new medal resembled its original design.
Recipients include:
1902: Ernst Georg Ravenstein, for his efforts during 40 years to introduce scientific methods into the cartography of the United Kingdom
1903: Sven Hedin, for his exploration in Central Asia
1905: John George Bartholomew, for his efforts to raise the standard of cartography.
1906: W. M. Ramsay, for his investigation of the Ancient Geography of Asia Minor
1909: Alexander Agassiz, for thirty years' work in oceanographical exploration
1911: Henry George Lyons, Egyptian Survey. For his investigations of the River Nile and its basin
1912: George H. Darwin, for his investigations on tides and in geodesy.
1913: Sidney Gerald Burrard Indian Survey. For his distinguished contributions to geography and geodesy.
1915: Hugh Robert Mill
1917: John Keltie
1919: John Walter Gregory
1920: Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham
1922: John F. Baddeley
1924: John Fillmore Hayford
1927: Charles Close
1928: Edward Ayearst Reeves
1930: Emmanuel de Margerie
1932: Arthur Philemon Coleman
1934: Edward Heawood
1935: Edward James Wayland
1936: Stanley Wells Kemp
1938: Arthur Robert Hinks
1940: O. G. S. Crawford
1941: Harold Jeffreys
1946: Herbert John Fleure, for distinguished service in the advancement of geographical education and valuable researches into the human aspects of geography
1947: Eva G. R. Taylor
1948: Frank Debenham
1950: Emmanuel de Martonne
1951: Charles Cotton
1953: John Myres
1955: Sir John Russell, for his studies of soils and agriculture
1957: Sidney William Wooldridge
1958: Roberto Almagià
1959: Gerald Seligman
1960: James Alfred Steers
1962: Carl Troll
1963: Henry Clifford Darby
1964: John Norman Leonard Baker
1966: Gerald Roe Crone
1967: Charles W.
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