Vega medal
The Vega Medal ( Swedish Vegamedaljen ) is an award given by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography since 1881 . It is named after the ship with which Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld first sailed the Northeast Passage in 1880 . The award will take place on the anniversary of Nordenskiöld's return to Stockholm , April 24th , by the King of Sweden .
For a long time, the medal was awarded every three years for achievements in the field of physical geography and was considered one of the most important awards in this field. In the intervening years, however, the Anders-Retzius Medal was awarded to a representative of human geography or anthropology , so that these three subject areas were represented alternately. After the Anders Retzius Medal was discontinued in 2015, the Vega Medal will also be awarded to human geographers, while the alternating subject area has been retained, while the SSAG medal has been awarded to anthropologists every three years since 2016 .
Award winners
- Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1881)
- Louis Palander (1882)
- Henry Morton Stanley (1883)
- Nikolai Michailowitsch Prschewalsky (1884)
- Wilhelm Junker (1888)
- Fridtjof Nansen (1889)
- Emin Pasha (1890)
- Louis-Gustave Binger (1892)
- Otto Sverdrup (1897)
- Sven Hedin (1898)
- Georg August Schweinfurth (1899)
- Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (1900)
- Luigi Amedeo di Savoia-Aosta (1901)
- Ferdinand von Richthofen (1903)
- Otto Nordenskiöld and Johan Gunnar Andersson (1904)
- Robert Falcon Scott (1905)
- Otto Pettersson (1907)
- Johan Peter Koch (1909)
- Ernest Shackleton (1910)
- John Murray (1912)
- Roald Amundsen (1913)
- Gerard De Geer (1915)
- Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (1919)
- William Morris Davis (1920)
- Albert I of Monaco (1922)
- Albrecht Penck (1923)
- Lye Koch (1924)
- Boris Andreevich Wilkizki (1926)
- Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1930)
- Émile-Félix Gautier (1931)
- Albert Defant (1932)
- Roy Chapman Andrews (1937)
- Vilhelm Bjerknes and Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1939)
- Bjørn Helland-Hansen and Hans Wilhelmsson Ahlmann (1941)
- Lennart von Post (1944)
- Emmanuel de Martonne (1946)
- Richard Evelyn Byrd (1948)
- Hans Pettersson (1950)
- Carl Troll (1951)
- Laurence Dudley Stamp (1954)
- Paul-Émile Victor (1955)
- Carl O. Sauer (1957)
- Jacob Bjerknes and Tor Bergeron (1958)
- Michail Michailowitsch Somow (1959)
- Richard Joel Russell (1961)
- Thor Heyerdahl (1962)
- Louis Leakey (1963)
- Maurice Ewing (1965)
- Filip Hjulström and Sigurður Þórarinsson (1970)
- Albert P. Crary (1972)
- Willi Dansgaard (1975)
- Valter Schytt (1981)
- Cesare Emiliani (1983)
- Hubert Lamb (1984)
- J. Ross Mackay (1986)
- Gunnar Hoppe and Åke Sundborg (1987)
- George H. Denton (1990)
- David E. Sugden (1993)
- Gösta Hjalmar Liljequist (1994)
- Albert Lincoln Washburn (1997)
- John Imbrie (1999)
- Lonnie G. Thompson (2002)
- Françoise Gasse (2005)
- Dorthe Dahl-Jensen (2008)
- Terry Callaghan (2011)
- Compton J. Tucker (2014)
- Lesley Head (2015)
- Yao Tandong (2017)
- Gillian Hart (2018)
- David R. Montgomery (2020)
Individual evidence
- ^ Staffan Helmfrid: Geography in Sweden . In: Belgeo . tape 1 , no. 1 , 2004, p. 163-174 ( online [accessed August 11, 2014]).
Web links
- List of award winners up to 2016 (PDF)
- Medaljer at the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (Swedish)