American Geographical Society

Not to be confused with the National Geographic Society.
American Geographical Society
AbbreviationAGS
Formation1851
HeadquartersManhattan
Location
Coordinates40°43′27″N 74°00′19″W / 40.72409780°N 74.00527430°W / 40.72409780; -74.00527430[1]
President
Marie D. Price
Chairman
Christopher Tucker
Chief Executive Officer
John Konarski
AffiliationsAmerican Council of Learned Societies
Websiteamericangeo.org Edit this at Wikidata
Formerly called
American Geographical and Statistical Society
History of geography

The American Geographical Society (AGS) is an organization of professional geographers, founded in 1851 in New York City. Most fellows of the society are Americans, but among them have always been a significant number of fellows from around the world.[2] The society encourages activities that expands geographical knowledge, and the interpretation of that knowledge so that it can be useful to geographers and other disciplines, especially in a policymaking environment. It is the oldest[3] nationwide geographical organization in the United States. Over the century and a half of its existence, the AGS has been especially interested in three regions: the Arctic, the Antarctic, and Latin America. A signature characteristic of the AGS-sponsored exploration was the requirement that its expeditions produce tangible scientific results.

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