Ness Award

The Ness Award is an annual award of the Royal Geographical Society to travellers, particularly those who have successfully popularised Geography and the wider understanding of our world and its environments.{{cite web|url= http://www.rgs.org/AboutUs/Medals+and+Awards/Medals+and+Awards.htm|title= Medals and awards|publisher= Royal Geographical Society|accessdate= 18 August 2015|archive-date= 15 February 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180215072919/http://www.rgs.org/AboutUs/Medals+and+awards/Medals+and+awards.htm|url-status= dead}} It was established in 1953 and named after Mrs Patrick Ness (1881–1962), an intrepid and well-to-do traveller throughout Africa and the first female Fellow of the Society.

Mrs Patrick Ness was born Elizabeth Wilhelmina Miller in Brighton in 1881 and married Patrick Powell Ness in 1903. She accompanied her husband to Kenya before the First World War and then returned alone in 1920, when she made several epic journeys across the African and Asian continents. In 1923 she crossed the Syrian Desert, in 1927 she travelled from Khartoum to Nairobi and on via the Congo to the Cape, the first European woman to travel on Lake Kivu. She later wrote a book of her adventures entitled Ten Thousand Miles in Two Continents {{Cite journal | url=http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/content/61/244/234.extract |doi = 10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a095001|title = MRS. Patrick Ness|journal = African Affairs|volume = 61|issue = 244|pages = 234–235|year = 1962|last1 = c.p|url-access = subscription}}{{dead link|date=May 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{cite web | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11934403 | title=MRS. Patrick Ness in Central Africa - the Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) - 7 Nov 1936 | newspaper=Argus | date=7 November 1936 }}

Recipients

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class="wikitable" \| Year	Name	Citation (where known)
1954	Charles W.M. Swithinbank{{Cite journal\|jstor = 1791566\|title = The Society's News\|journal = The Geographical Journal\|volume = 120\|issue = 2\|pages = 246–248\|year = 1954}}	for research in Antarctic glaciology
1955	Ernest Frederick Roots{{Cite journal\|jstor = 1791739\|title = The Society's News\|journal = The Geographical Journal\|volume = 121\|issue = 2\|pages = 237–238\|year = 1955}}
1956
1957
1958	Anthony Gerald Bomford
1959	J. Homes Miller{{cite web\|url=https://www.nzaht.org/pages/hillarys-crew\|title=TAE/IGY Crew\|publisher=Antarctic Heritage Trust\|accessdate= 2 December 2016}}{{Cite journal\|jstor = 1791193\|title = Meetings: Session 1958-59\|journal = The Geographical Journal\|volume = 125\|issue = 3/4\|pages = 477–490\|year = 1959}} George W. Marsh {{Cite journal\|jstor = 1790551\|title = The Society's News\|journal = The Geographical Journal\|volume = 125\|issue = 2\|pages = 278–279\|year = 1959}}	(jointly) Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
1960	Raymond John Adie{{cite web\|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247406005626\|title=Obituaries\|access-date=2023-08-20}}
1961	Robin Hanbury-Tenison{{Cite web \|url=http://www.robinsbooks.co.uk/cv.htm \|title=Archived copy \|access-date=2016-12-03 \|archive-date=2017-02-05 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205220752/http://robinsbooks.co.uk/cv.htm \|url-status=dead }}{{cite web\|url=http://www.oxbridge.org.hk/index.php?option=com_ohanah&view=event&id=134&Itemid=103\|title=COSF Speaker Luncheon with Dr. Robin Hanbury-Tension, OBE, FLS\|publisher=The Oxford and Cambridge Society of Hong Kong\|accessdate=2 December 2016\|archive-date=11 February 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211084835/http://oxbridge.org.hk/index.php?option=com_ohanah&view=event&id=134&Itemid=103\|url-status=dead}}
1962
1963	John Baird Tyson{{cite news\|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10695779/John-Tyson-obituary.html\|title=John Tyson-Obituary\|publisher=The Telegraph\|accessdate=2 December 2016\|date=2014-03-13}}
1964	Dennis Alexander Ardus {{cite web\|url=https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/en/About/History/Obituaries%202001%20onwards/Obituaries%202008/Dennis%20Alexander%20Ardus%201937-2008\|title=Dennis Alexander Ardus, 1937-2008\|publisher=Geological Society\|accessdate= 2 December 2016}}
1965	David Stoddart{{cite web\|url=http://www.aag.org/cs/membership/tributes_memorials/sz/stoddart_david\|title=David Stoddart\|publisher=American Association of Geographers\|accessdate=2 December 2016}}
1966
1967	Peter Opie-Smith{{Cite journal\|jstor = 1793362\|title = The Society's News\|journal = The Geographical Journal\|volume = 133\|issue = 2\|pages = 272–274\|year = 1967}}	for geodetic surveys in the Solomon Islands
1968
1969
1970	Dr John D Thornes
1971	Lieutenant Colonel J D C Peacock
1972	Major David N Hall
1973	Dr D J Moffat
1974	Colonel J M Adam OBE, OStJ, FRCP Ian Douglas Hamilton
1975	Adrian Thompson
1976	Squadron Leader Tom Sheppard MBE
1977	Lieutenant Colonel Harry R A Streather OBE
1978	Miss F A Street
1979	Nigel de Northop Winser
1980	Richard Snailham
1981	Chief Petty Officer S R Williams
1982	Miss Shane Wesley-Smith
1983	Roger Chapman MBE
1984	Andy Eavis
1985	Paul Vander-Molen
1986	Dr Caroline Sargeant
1987	Miss Nicola Bennett-Jones SRN
1988	Dr John Matthews
1989	Steve Bowles
1990	Dick Willis
1991	Dr Richard Crane
1992	Mandip Singh Soin
1993	Michael Asher
1994	Alasdair Kennedy
1995	Paul Salaman
1996	Major Alastair Rogers
1997	John Birdsall
1998	Michael Palin
1999	David Grey Rattray \|
2000	Nick Danziger
2001	Peter Drake
2002	Nick Middleton
2003	Ray Mears
2004	John Hare	for raising public awareness and conservation of endangered wild camels in Mongolia and China
2005	Neil Laughton[http://laughton.co Neil Laughton]	for leadership of expeditions and encouraging others to recognise their potential as travellers
2006	John Pilkington	for the popularisation of geography and the wider understanding of our world
2007	Paul Rose	for supporting and promoting the popular understanding of geography
2008	David Wright	for the popularisation of geography among young people
2009	Neil Oliver	for popularising and promoting understanding of the British coastal landscape
2010	Professor Iain Stewart	for popularising geography and earth sciences
2011	Colin Thubron CBE	for popularising geography through travel writing
2012	Simon Reeve	for popularising geography through television travel documentaries and writing
2013	Wade Davis	for popularising geography through writing about places, cultures and history
2014	Nicholas Crane	for popularising geography and the understanding of Britain
2015	Robert Macfarlane	in recognition of his work in communicating 'geography to a wide public by means of writing about nature, landscape and place{{cite web\|url =http://www.cam.ac.uk/for-staff/awards/royal-geographical-society-ness-award-goes-to-robert-macfarlane#sthash.yRkMys4s.dpuf\|title=Ness Award goes to Robert Macfarlane \|publisher= Royal Geographical Society\|accessdate = 18 August 2015\|date=2015-05-06 }}
2016	Andrea Wulf	for popularising the histories of geography and of scientific botanical exploration via her book The Invention of Nature
2017	Kathleen Jamie	for outstanding creative writing at the confluence of travel, nature and culture{{cite web\|url=https://www.rgs.org/about/medals-award/2017-awards/ \|title=2017 medals and awards \|author=\|date=\|publisher=Royal Geographical Society \|access-date=22 May 2018}}
2018	Rory Stewart, MP	for the popularisation of geography through the media
2019	Dervla Murphy	for the popularisation of geography through travel literature{{cite web \|title=Medals and award recipients announced \|url=https://www.rgs.org/geography/news/medal-and-award-recipients-announced/ \|publisher=Royal Geographical Society \|accessdate=21 June 2020 \|date=2019}}

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External links

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Category:Awards of Royal Geographical Society

Category:Awards established in 1953

Ness Award

Recipients

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