The Ness Award is an annual award of the
Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical scien ...
to travellers, particularly those who have successfully popularised Geography and the wider understanding of our world and its environments. It was established in 1953 and named after
Mrs Patrick Ness Elizabeth Wilhelmina Ness, who wrote as Mrs Patrick Ness or E. Wilhelmina Ness (1881-1962) was an English traveller. She was the first female Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), and the first woman to be elected to the RGS Council. In 19 ...
(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''
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See also
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List of geographers
This list of geographers is presented in English alphabetical transliteration order (by surnames).
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*Hardo Aasmäe (Estonia, 1951–2014)
* Aziz Ab'Saber (Brazil, 1924–2012)
* Diogo Abreu (Portugal, born 1947)
*John Adams, (England, pre– ...
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List of geography awards
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*Lists of awards
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References
External links
List of links to RGS awards winners
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Awards of Royal Geographical Society
Awards established in 1953