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".
[1] 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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