51 days ago by Matthew Stibbe

If you have ever stared outside of an aircraft window wondering just what you are seeing below you or what is below you, the Royal Geographical Society [1] has teamed up with the Institute of British Geographers [2] to come up with the Hidden Journeys Project [3]. Specifically, the web portal contai ...

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53 days ago by Tom Evans

Today my Father and I spend the day in the Natural History Museum, the Royal Geographical Society and finally Buckingham Palace; we didn't pop in to visit Liz, we were there for the Heart of the Great Alone exhibition. A huge collection of original photographs and artifacts from Shackleton and Scott ...

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61 days ago by admin

« Back to news The winners of the international Travel Photographer of the Year 2011 competition have been announced. The overall winner is Louis Montrose of the USA – an Elizabethan scholar and former professor at the University of California -, who has received the award for his two striking, and ...

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64 days ago by White Dog Leader

On December 3, 2011 the first shift of IM&T North Team took time-out from our usual work routine and organizes this year’s out-of-town team building event in Ramlat al-Wahiba (also called the Sharqiyah Sands) located in Wilayat Bediyah, Sharqiyah Governorate. Taking into account the number of partic ...

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67 days ago by dianabuja

Lotus plants of the species Nymphaea lotus L. were an important ingredient in African traditional cuisine. Found throughout tropical Africa and in the Nile Valley, their collection and processing for the table is reported by various colonial writers. The frustration, though, is the lack of specific ...

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77 days ago by paulacbrannan

How much water do you eat? That was the oddly compelling title of a Ted-style 15-minute talk by Jane Withers at the inaugural IQ2 “If” conference at the Royal Geographical Society in London on Friday. The self-styled aquaholic is on a one-woman mission to raise awareness about water consumption and ...

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83 days ago by Tom Evans

This weekend the Royal Geographical Society held their annual fieldwork and expedition planning weekend, Explore. I was quick to buy a ticket a couple of months ago and lucky enough to attend this weekend - due to various reasons I could only attend the Saturday, the main day of the weekend, but Sat ...

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86 days ago by Tom Evans

This weekend the Royal Geographical Society are holding their long running weekend ' Explore', a collection of adventure enthusiasts teaching and learning everything to do with travel, adventure and fieldwork. There will be lectures, workshops and presentations for anyone looking to plan an expediti ...

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89 days ago by tom

In this month’s issue of Geographical, the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society: Reviving the spice of life Pepper from Cambodia’s Kampot region was once world renowned, but the industry almost disappeared under the Khmer Rouge. Now, a new initiative is helping to reinject some spice into Kamp ...

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96 days ago by dianabuja

[First posted August.. 2009, Revised 08 November 2011] In 1862 Sir Samuel Baker and his Hungarian wife Lady Florence, set off to discover the source of the Nile. Theirs is one of the more bazaar and fascinating pages of colonial history. Lady Florence had been a white slave who was rescued by Baker ...

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