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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2003-01-17 human Ailie Smith and Helen Cohn updated 2025-10-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A002197b.htm corporateBody Institute of Australian Geographers AACR2 1959 Start Place Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Location Adelaide, South Australia Geography Professional Association Learned society The Institute of Australian Geographers was founded in 1959 after an initial meeting in August 1958 at which there was general agreement that a national geography society was needed (instead of only the few state-based organisations). A specialist society, it was seen as replacing the relevant Section of Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science as had happened in other disciplines. Affiliation with the International Geographical Union was a further incentive. The Institute is a professional organisation, members of which may be academics, teachers, geographers from both the public and private spheres, and other interested members of the public. Its aims include to: advocate for the study and practice of geography; advance Australian geography internationally; represent the interests of professional geographers; publish a research journal; and hold meetings and other events to disseminate geographical studies and research. The Institute publishes Geographical research, a refereed journal that promotes innovative and methodologically rigorous work demonstrating the strength and diversity of all parts of geography.

Journals published by the Institute include:
Australian geographical record no. 1-5 (1959 - 1963; superceded by:
Australian geographical studies (ISSN 0004-9190) vol. 1-42 (1963 - 2004); continued by:
Geographical research (ISSN 1745-5863) vol. 43 (2005) -

Awards presented by the Institute include:
Griffith Taylor Medal - for distinguished contributions to geographical thought in Australia (from 1989):
Honorary Life Membership - for distinguished service to the Institute (from 1960):
Distinguished Fellowship - for distinguished service to Australian geography through furthering the aims of the Institute (named Fellowship 1989 - 2002; Distinguished Fellowship from 2008):
Fellowship - for sustained and significant contributions to the discipline made by practitioner and professional geographers (from 2008)
Australia-International Medal - for outstanding contributions by Australian or Australia-based geographers to the advancement of geography worldwide, or the geography of Australia by non-residents (from 1999):
The William Jonas Award - for significant contributions made to Indigenous geographies, and/or by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander geographers (from 2020).

 Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS) (1985 - ) Maude, Alaric Mervyn (1938 - )

Secretary 2004 - 2012; Business Manager, Australian geographical studies 1968 - 1973; Distinguished Fellow 2009 - 2017; Honorary Life Member 2017 -

 Hugo, Graeme John (1946 - 2015)

Awarded Australia-International Medal 2014

 Heathcote, Ronald Leslie (Les) (1934 - 2010)

President 1985 - 1986

 Jennings, Joseph Newell (Joe) (1916 - 1984)

President 1975; Honorary Life Member 1978 - 1984

 Williams, Michael (1935 - 2009)

Secretary 1969 - 1972

 Kirkpatrick, James Barrie (Jamie) (1946 - 2024)

Distinguished Fellow 2009 -

 Gentilli, Joseph Hefetz (1912 - 2002)

Honorary Life Member 1988 - 2002

 Gale, Gwendoline Fay (Fay) (1932 - 2008)

Honorary Fellow 1993 - 2008

 Wadham, Samuel MacMahon (1891 - 1972)

Honorary Life Member 1961 - 1972

 Law, Phillip Garth (1912 - 2010)

Honorary Life Member 1960 - 2010

 Hills, Edwin Sherbon (1906 - 1986)

Honorary Life Member 1960 - 1986

 Taylor, Thomas Griffith (1880 - 1963)

President 1959 - 1961

 Dowling, Robyn M. (1965 - )

Fellow 2010 -

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