Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations

The Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations et Voyages de Découverte (Great Gold Medal of Exploration and Journeys of Discovery) has been awarded since 1829 by the Société de Géographie of France for journeys whose outcomes have enhanced geographical knowledge.[1]

Recipients

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Year Recipient Reason
1829 Captain John Franklin for his voyage to the North Polar region
1830 René Caillié and Major Alexander Gordon Laing for their journey to Timbuktu
1832 Jean Baptiste Douville for his journey to the Congo and in equatorial Africa
1834 Captain John Ross for his voyages in the Polar seas
1835 Alcide d'Orbigny for his journeys in southern America
1836 Captain Camille Callier for his journeys in the Orient (Middle East)
1837 Captain George Back for his voyages in the Arctic region
1838 Frédéric DuBois de Montperreux [fr] for his journey in the Caucasus region
1841 Rear-admiral Dumont d'Urville for his voyage to the South Pole and Oceania
1843 James Clark Ross for his discoveries in the Antarctic seas
1844 Xavier Hommaire de Hell for his voyage on the Caspian Sea
Joseph-Pons d'Arnaud [fr] for his journey towards the source of the White Nile
1845 Claude Gay for his journey to Chile
Pierre Victor Ferret [fr] and Joseph Galinier [fr] for their journey in Abyssinia
1846 Charles Tilstone Beke and Théophile Lefebvre [fr] for their journey in Abyssinia (medal returned by Beke)
1847 Ludwig Leichhardt for his journey in Australia
Rochet d'Héricourt [fr] for his journey in Choa
1850 Antoine and Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie for their journey in Abyssinia
1855 Captain Robert McClure for discovering the North-west Passage
1856 Henry Barth for his journey to Timbuktu
1857 David Livingstone for his journeys across southern Africa
1858 Elisha Kent Kane for his journey to the Arctic regions
1859 Hermann, Robert and Adolf von Schlagintweit for their explorations in Tibet and Turkestan
1860 Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke for their exploration of the great lakes of east Africa
1861 Nicolas de Khanikof [de] for his exploration of the Khorassan
1864 Henri Duveyrier for his exploration of the Algerian Sahara and the country of the Touareg
1867 Sir Samuel White Baker for his journey in equatorial Africa
1869 Ernest Doudart de Lagrée and Francis Garnier for their exploration of Indo-China
1872 Alfred Grandidier for his exploration of Madagascar
1876 Gustav Nachtigal for his journey across central Africa
1877 Verney Lovett Cameron for his journey across equatorial Africa
1878 Henry Morton Stanley for his journey across equatorial Africa
1879 Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza for his exploration of the Upper Ogoue
1880 Adolf Nordenskjold the Northwest Passage
1881 Major Alexandre de Serpa Pinto for his journey across Africa
1884 Alphonse Milne-Edwards for underwater surveying and dredging from the ships Travailleur and Talisman
1886 Hermenegildo de Brito Capelo for his journey across southern Africa
1890 Captain Louis Gustave Binger for his journey of exploration from the Upper Niger to the Gulf of Guinea
1891 Gabriel Bonvalot for his journey from Siberia to Tonkin via Tibet
1893 Parfait-Louis Monteil for his journey from Senegal to Tripoli via Chad
1896 Prince Henri of Orléans for his journey from the Gulf of Tonkin to the Gulf of Bombay, 1895
1897 Fridtjof Nansen for his crossing of the Arctic Sea, 1893–1896
1898 Édouard Foà [fr] for his crossing of equatorial Africa, 1894–1897
1899 Emile Gentil for exploration in Africa, from the Congo to Chad, 1895–1898
1900 Jean-Baptiste Marchand for the Congo-Nile expedition, 1896–1899
1901 Fernand Foureau for the (Foureau-Lamy) trans-Sahara expedition, 1898–1900
1902 Captain Paul Joalland for the (Joalland-Meynier) expedition to central Africa, 1899–1901
1903 Auguste Pavie for his exploration of Indo-China, 1879–1895
1904 Sven Hedin for his explorations in central Asia, 1894–1902
1907 Colonel Robert Emile Bourgeois [fr] for his geodesic expedition at the Equator
1910 Sir Ernest Shackleton for exploration of Antarctica
1912 Jean-Baptiste Charcot for his Antarctic expeditions
1913 Raoul Amundsen for the discovery of the South Pole
1914 Admiral Robert E. Peary for the discovery of the North Pole
1918 Jean Tilho [fr] for the expedition to central Africa
1922 Charles Howard-Bury for the Everest Expedition of 1921
Charles Granville Bruce for the Everest Expedition of 1922
1923 Sir Aurel Stein for explorations in central Asia
Rosita Forbes for her exploration of the Kufra oasis
1924 Ole Olufsen for his journey to the French Sahara
Bruneau de Laborie [fr] for the journey from Cameroon to Cairo via Lake Tchad and the Libyan desert
1925 Baron Adrien de Guerlache de Gomery for the Belgian Antarctic Expedition 1897–1899 and 1905: 07–09
1927 Charles Lindbergh for the first crossing of the Atlantic by aeroplane
1928 Jacques de Rohan-Chabot [fr] for exploration in Angola
1929 Ahmed Hassanein and Prince Kamal el Dine Hussein for their exploration of the eastern Sahara
1932 Wickliffe Preston Draper for the Augiéras-Draper Expedition (Southern Sahara), 1927–1928
1933 Georges-Marie Haardt [fr] and Louis Audouin-Dubreuil [fr] for the Citroën Expedition to Central Asia, 1931–1932
1939 Alexander Hamilton Rice for his exploration of the Amazon Basin
1950 French expedition to the Himalayas and Maurice Herzog for the first ascent of Annapurna
1952 Théodore Monod for expeditions and studies in Africa
1953 Augustin Lombard for his study trip up Mount Everest
1954 Georges Houot and Pierre Willm for the first dive into the deep ocean in a Bathyscaphe
1955 John Hunt, Baron Hunt, Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay for the first ascent of Mount Everest
1957 Henri Lhote for his travel and archaeological work in the Sahara
1958 Vivian Fuchs for the first transantarctic expedition and complete crossing of the continent
1970 Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins for the first landing on the Moon
1977 Germaine Dieterlen for Ethnology, especially the black civilisations (Dogon, Molinké and Bambara)
1979 Norbert Casteret for Speleology
1991 Jean-Louis Étienne for his transantarctic expedition
1998 Patrice Franceschi for his New Guinea expedition
1999 Georges Pernoud for his television series Thalassa
2001 Yann Arthus-Bertrand for the sum of his photographic work
2002 Jean-Yves Empereur for his archaeological discoveries in Egypt, notably in the port of Alexandria (underwater archaeology)
2003 Nicolas Hulot for his expeditions, his television programs and his works
2004 Gilles Elkaim [fr] for his Arctic expedition of 2000–2004
2005 Jean-Marc Pineau for having retraced on foot the journey of René Caillié and his account of the journey Sur les pas de René Caillié
2006 Érik Orsenna for the sum of his work, Salut au Grand Sud and Voyages aux Pays du Coton
2007 Jean Raspail for the sum of his work

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "GRANDE MÉDAILLE D'OR DES EXPLORATIONS ET VOYAGES DE DÉCOUVERTE (in French)". Société de géographie. Archived from the original on 6 December 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2014.