The Mungo Park Medal is awarded by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society

Royal Scottish Geographical Society

The Royal Scottish Geographical Society is a learned society founded in 1884 and based in Perth. The Society has a membership of 2500 and aims to advance the science of geography worldwide by supporting education, research, expeditions, through its journal , its newsletter and other publications...

 in recognition of outstanding contributions to geographical knowledge through exploration and/or research, and/or work of a practical nature of benefit to humanity in potentially hazardous physical and/or social environments.
It was founded in honour of the Scottish explorer Mungo Park

Mungo Park (explorer)

Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer of the African continent. He was credited as being the first Westerner to encounter the Niger River.-Early life:...

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Winners

• 1929 Sargeant Thomas Anderson
  Thomas Anderson
  Thomas Anderson may refer to:*Thomas David Anderson , Scottish astronomer*Thomas H. Anderson, Jr. , American diplomat*Thomas H. Anderson , United States federal judge*Thomas J...
  
  
• 1930 Captain Angus Buchanan
  Angus Buchanan
  Angus Buchanan, VC, MC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1931 F.S. Smythe
• 1934 Isobel W. Hutchison FRSGS
• 1935 Freya Stark
  Freya Stark
  Dame Freya Madeline Stark, Mrs. Perowne, DBE was a British explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels, which were mainly in Arabia, Iran and Afghanistan....
  
  
• 1936 Lawrence R. Wager
  Lawrence Wager
  Lawrence Rickard Wager, commonly known as Bill Wager, was a British geologist, explorer and mountaineer, described as "one of the finest geological thinkers of his generation" and best remembered for his work on the Skaergaard intrusion in Greenland, and for his attempt on Mount Everest in...
  
   MA FGS, Lecturer in Geology, University of Reading
  University of Reading
  The University of Reading is a university in the English town of Reading, Berkshire. The University was established in 1892 as University College, Reading and received its Royal Charter in 1926. It is based on several campuses in, and around, the town of Reading.The University has a long tradition...
  
  
• 1939 Dr. E.B. Worthington MA PhD, for his share in the work of the African Research Survey
• 1944 Frank Fraser Darling
  Frank Fraser Darling
  Sir Frank Fraser Darling was an English ecologist, ornithologist, farmer, conservationist and author, who is strongly associated with the highlands and islands of Scotland.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1948 F. Spencer Chapman, Mary Gibson Henry
  Mary Gibson Henry
  Mary Gibson Henry was an American botanist and plant collector from Philadelphia, who also served as president of the American Horticultural Society. The Hymenocallis henryae is named in her honor.Mrs...
  
  , Pennsylvania, USA
• 1950 Thor Heyerdahl
  Thor Heyerdahl
  Thor Heyerdahl was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a background in zoology and geography. He became notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition, in which he sailed by raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands...
  
  
• 1952 W.H. Murray
• 1953 Count Eigil Knuth
  Eigil Knuth
  Count Eigil Knuth was a Danish explorer, archaeologist, sculptor and writer. He is referred to as the Nestor of Danish polar explorers. His archaeological investigations were made in Peary Land and adjacent areas of High Arctic Greenland...
  
  
• 1954 Dr. Alain Bombard
  Alain Bombard
  Alain Bombard was a French biologist, physician and politician famous for sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat.Alain Bombard was born in Paris...
  
  
• 1955 George Christopher Band, Thomas Dempster Mackinnon
• 1961 Marjory Penham
• 1962 C.G. Malcolm Slesser
  Malcolm Slesser
  Malcolm Slesser was a Scottish energy analyst, scientist and mountaineer.-Biography:Slesser graduated from Edinburgh University. He began mountain climbing when he was young. In the 1950s Slesser joined an expedition to the Arctic...
  
  
• 1969 Dr. Hugh Simpson and Myrtle Simpson
• 1975 Haroun Tazieff
  Haroun Tazieff
  Haroun Tazieff was a French volcanologist and geologist. He was a famous cinematographer of volcanic eruptions and lava flows, and the author of several books about volcanoes....
  
  
• 1981 Professor Keith L. Miller
• 1987 John Ridgway
  John Ridgway (sailor)
  John Ridgway, MBE, , is a British yachtsman and rower.-Biography:Ridgway was educated at Pangbourne Nautical College and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. In 1966, whilst a Captain in the Parachute Regiment, Ridgway, together with Chay Blyth, rowed across the North Atlantic in a 20 ft open...
  
  
• 1988 Dr. John Hemming
  John Hemming (explorer)
  Dr John Hemming, CMG is a Canadian explorer and author, expert on Incas and indigenous peoples of Amazonia.-Biography:Hemming was born in Vancouver because his Canadian father, Henry Harold Hemming OBE, MC, had been through the trenches in the First World War, saw the Second coming, and wanted him...
  
  
• 1989 Christina Dodwell
  Christina Dodwell
  Christina Dodwell FRGS is a British explorer, travel writer, and lecturer. She is Chairman of the Dodwell Trust and was awarded the Mungo Park Medal in 1989....
  
  
• 1990 Charles Swithinbank
• 1991 Professor Andrew Goudie
• 1992 Nicholas Crane
  Nicholas Crane
  Nicholas Crane is an English geographer, explorer, writer and broadcaster. Since 2004, he has written and presented four notable television series for BBC Two: Coast, Great British Journeys, Map Man and Town....
  
   & Richard Crane
• 1993 Professor David Sugden
• 1994 Michael Buerk
  Michael Buerk
  Michael Duncan Buerk is a BBC journalist and newsreader, most famous for his reporting of the Ethiopian famine on 23 October 1984, which inspired the Band Aid charity record.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1995 Nigel Winser & Shane Winser, RGS
• 1996 Michael Asher
  Michael Asher (explorer)
  Michael Asher is an author, historian, deep ecologist, and notable desert explorer who has covered more than 30,000 miles on foot and camel. He spent three years living with a traditional nomadic tribe in the Sudan.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1997 Professor Chalmers M. Clapperton
• 1998 Julian Pettifer
  Julian Pettifer
  Julian Pettifer OBE is a British television journalist. He was President of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and is Vice President of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts...
  
  , journalist and broadcaster
• 1999 Kate Adie
  Kate Adie
  Kathryn "Kate" Adie , OBE , is a British journalist. Her most high-profile role was that of chief news correspondent for BBC News, during which time she became well known for reporting from war zones around the world...
  
  
• 2000 Colin Thubron
  Colin Thubron
  Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron, CBE is a British travel writer and novelist.In 2008, The Times ranked him 45th on their list of the 50 greatest postwar British writers. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times. His books...
  
  
• 2001 Robin Hanbury-Tenison
• 2002 William Dalrymple
• 2003 John Simpson CBE, World Affairs Editor, BBC
• 2004 Norma and Maurice Joseph
• 2005 Professor Jean Malaurie
  Jean Malaurie
  Jean Malaurie was born on December 22, 1922 in Mainz . He is a French cultural anthropologist, geographer, physicist and writer, as well as the Director and founder of the Terre Humaine series .- Biography :...
  
  
• 2006 John Hare
• 2007 Norman E. Hallendy
• 2010 Jacob Milroy, Pharmacologist