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Expeditions

The Society helps with the funding of Scottish-based expeditions to many parts of the world. Many expeditions return to Scotland with new scientific discoveries. Recent expeditions, part-funded by RSGS, have visited Botswana, Madagascar, Iceland, Belize, Uganda, Chile, Canada, Mongolia, Morocco, Ecuador, Cyprus, Indonesia, Malaysia, Norway, Bolivia, Thailand and Trinidad.

One of the aims of RSGS is to provide geographers with the opportunity for field work. In 1996 RSGS supported eight research expeditions to destinations ranging from Central Africa to Spitsbergen.

The four-member team for the expedition to Malawi, comprised third year geography students from Aberdeen. The girls worked in Muona Mission and Chitera in southern Malawi. On their return in September 1996 they described their trip as 'an opportunity of a lifetime'.

In addition to university research expeditions, RSGS also encourages youth projects and school field trips.

In June 1996, after many months of fund raising, twenty two pupils and three members of staff from Portree High School on the Isle of Skye, left for Morocco to study land use and rural settlement in the valleys of the High Atlas Mountains.

A study tour of India by teacher trainees from Jordanhill was supported to enable them to develop cross-cultural studies for primary school children.

The Society has also been asked to administer the expedition funds of the Springboard Trust. Individual as well as group expeditions may be funded. Contact RSGS headquarters in Glasgow for application forms and details of how to apply.

Sponsorship

The RSGS invites companies to make corporate awards to expeditions through the Society.

Further Information

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