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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Does the Royal Geographic Society have ties with National Geographic magazine?
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As far as I know they don't.
National Geographic are based in Washington, D.C and RGS is based in the U.K.
Taken from the RGS
web-page:
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We are the UK's learned society and professional body for geography, founded in 1830. We advance geography and support its practitioners in the UK and across the world.
Through our activities we promote, support and enhance geographical research, education, fieldwork and expeditions, public engagement, knowledge transfer to policy, and the professional accreditation of geographers, as well as holding one of world's pre-eminent geographical collections that spans over 500 years of discovery and geographical science.
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Fawcett was a member of RGS. Seems like they're still pretty active with over 15 000 members.