Award of the Royal Geog. Soc. (UK)
The Busk Medal is an award given annually by the Royal Geographical Society, for "conservation research or for fieldwork abroad in geography or in a geographical aspect of an allied science". It was first awarded in 1975, and is named in honour of Sir Douglas Laird Busk, a former diplomat, mountaineer, and honorary vice-president of the Society. Busk worked as a diplomat in Iran, Hungary, South Africa, Japan, Turkey and Iraq before serving as Ambassador to Ethiopia, Finland and Venezuela.
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