sentences:  He was honored by the Czar for his pioneer work, which Baron Nordenskiöld described as an "Event rivaling in importance the return of the first fleet loaded with merchandise from India".In 1894 he was awarded the Murchison Award by the Royal Geographical Society.In 2016, it was reported that the wreck of the steamship "Thames", with which Wiggins had made an expedition to the Yenisei River in 1876 and which sank there in 1878, had been discovered.