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Limnologist John Smol to be awarded prestigious Vega Medal
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“One people, one planet, one life:” The story of a director’s chair and the Take Your Seat project
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Featured Fellow: Phil Lind
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Featured Fellow: Denise Clarke
Exploration
Meet the Canadian explorer who just completed the Seven Summits
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Eight awesome things that happened at the 2018 RCGS Fellows Dinner
Remembering Louie Kamookak, a new Explorer-in-Residence and other highlights from the 89th Annual College of Fellows Dinner
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Places
RCGS launches 2018 Summer Exhibits series at 50 Sussex
Summer series features three exhibitions: Compass by Hilde Lambrechts, Explore by Chris Cran, and Lessons from the Arctic, an artifact display honouring Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen
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Six more amazing things RCGS Fellows are up to this year
From painting a new side of the Franklin expedition to documenting shipwrecks along Ontario’s Hudson Bay Coast, see what just a few of the RCGS’s more than 1,000 Fellows are working on in 2018
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Featured Fellow: Meric Gertler
The University of Toronto president is a world leader in urban theory and the geography of innovation, creativity and culture in city centres
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Seven amazing things RCGS Fellows are up to this year
From documenting rock-hewn churches in Ethiopia to sonar-scanning B.C. waters for steam-era shipwrecks, see what just a few of the RCGS’s more than 1,000 Fellows are working on in 2018
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Articles
Exploration
George Kourounis: Going to extremes
Whether outrunning a tornado, dodging lava bombs or hunkering down in a hurricane, explorer George Kourounis is most comfortable living on the edge
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Remembering Bill Lishman
Fly away home, Father Goose
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Eight big moments from the 2017 RCGS Fellows Dinner and AGM
Exploration, education, new Fellows and the launch of RCGS Resolute: here are some of the highlights from the 2017 RCGS Fellows Dinner and AGM
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10 awesome things that happened at the 2016 RCGS Fellows Dinner
Celebrating new partnerships, milestone anniversaries and a bird for Canadians on geography's biggest night
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Featured Fellow: Wendy Cecil
Wendy Cecil is a Toronto-based philanthropist and the former vice-president of business development at Brascan Ltd. (now Brookfield Asset Management). She is chancellor at…
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