A year later, he joined the geographic society and in 1935 served as project officer for the first human flight into the stratosphere, in which two men ascended 72,395 feet in a giant balloon.

A geographic society, the Institute of Incoherent Geography, proposes to travel around the world using vehicles made by the eccentric engineer Mabouloff ("maboul" is French for "crazy" or "crackpot").

"It was like looking into space and seeing galaxies," said Emory Kristof, a geographic society photographer, who described the first sight of the bacterial mats across the vent area.

Together with a group of geographers and biologists he founded the Serbian geographic society in 1910, in Belgrade.

In the year 1912 he started a magazine "Serbian geographic society herald", which still exists.

Exciting for Archeologists "It's a very interesting site," said George Stuart, director of archeological projects at the geographic society.

Ted Waitt, founder and former chief executive of Gateway, said the Waitt Institute gave the geographic society a grant of more than $1 million for the restoration.

This association with Russia has also led the Russian geographic society to name a vulcano after him (in the area of Ujun-Choldongi).

The Société de Géographie de Paris, founded in 1821, was the first modern geographic society.

The latter is the primary academic geographic society in Japan.