The Société Royale Belge de Géographie (In English, the Royal Belgian Geographical Society) or SRBG, is a Belgian learned society which works to promote geographical sciences.
The Société was founded on 27 August 1876 as the Belgian Society of Geography a few days before the opening of the Brussels Geographic Conference to promote the exploration of various parts of the world.
[3] Although it was later funded privately Adrien de Gerlache first unveiled his plans for the Belgian Antarctic Expedition to the society in 1894.
[4] In 1900 the society had more than one thousand members including several explorers such as the American, Richard Mohun.
[1][5] By the middle of the twentieth century the society had changed its objectives from exploration to scientific research and study.