Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations
The Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations et Voyages de Découverte (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃d medaj dɔʁ dez‿ɛksplɔʁasjɔ̃ e vwajaʒ də dekuvɛʁt], "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
| 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 | 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 | for his journey towards the source of the White Nile | |
| 1845 | Claude Gay | for his journey to Chile |
| Pierre Victor Ferret and Joseph Galinier | for their journey in Abyssinia | |
| 1846 | Charles Tilstone Beke and Théophile Lefebvre | for their journey in Abyssinia (medal returned by Beke) |
| 1847 | Ludwig Leichhardt | for his journey in Australia |
| Rochet d'Héricourt | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 and Louis Audouin-Dubreuil | 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 | 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
References
- ^ "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.