Journeys
The expeditions, reassembled
Every dated label is a diary entry. Read a collector’s labels in order and the voyage comes back: the islands in sequence, the days at each, the specimens from every stop. 2,592 journeys so far, 1874 to 2026, 493,508 specimens between them.
1,114 collectors and expeditions42,779 days in the field8,765,933 km between stops330,332 photographed specimens
2,592 journeys
Mangarevan Expedition
29 islands · May – Nov 1934
Mangarevan Expedition, May – November 193415,215 specimens · 33 stops · 173 days · 12,849 km
Donald Anderson
34 islands · Apr – Oct 1934
Donald Anderson across 34 islands, April – October 19348,872 specimens · 35 stops · 202 days · 16,221 km
Micronesian Expedition
26 islands · Dec 1935 – May 1936
Micronesian Expedition, December 1935 – May 19367,994 specimens · 35 stops · 178 days · 15,409 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
22 islands of Palau · Dec 1935 – Jun 1936
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 22 islands of Palau, December 1935 – June 19366,659 specimens · 16 stops · 189 days · 15,221 km
Yoshio Kondo
16 islands · May – Oct 1934
Yoshio Kondo across 16 islands, May – October 19344,915 specimens · 25 stops · 146 days · 6,036 km
S. Ito
19 islands of the United States · Dec 1935 – May 1936
S. Ito across 19 islands of the United States, December 1935 – May 19363,668 specimens · 32 stops · 178 days · 11,506 km
Clarence H. Cooke Jr.
26 islands · Apr – Oct 1934
Clarence H. Cooke Jr. across 26 islands, April – October 19343,369 specimens · 39 stops · 184 days · 14,736 km
Charles Montague Cooke Jr. III
17 islands · May – Oct 1934
Charles Montague Cooke Jr. III across 17 islands, May – October 19343,597 specimens · 25 stops · 140 days · 5,629 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
85 islands · Nov 1923 – Nov 1924
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. across 85 islands, November 1923 – November 19242,392 specimens · 109 stops · 342 days · 30,927 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
23 islands · May – Dec 1949
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 23 islands, May – December 19492,551 specimens · 57 stops · 218 days · 71,593 km
Laurence H. MacDaniels
12 islands · Oct 1926 – Jul 1927
Laurence H. MacDaniels across 12 islands, October 1926 – July 19272,144 specimens · 105 stops · 274 days · 40,135 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
32 islands · Apr – Oct 1934
F. Raymond Fosberg across 32 islands, April – October 19342,503 specimens · 85 stops · 201 days · 23,387 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
56 islands · Apr – Nov 1946
F. Raymond Fosberg across 56 islands, April – November 19462,439 specimens · 102 stops · 209 days · 105,682 km
Lapham Exped
12 islands · Jul – Oct 1938
Lapham Exped, July – October 19382,585 specimens · 25 stops · 98 days · 3,171 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
12 islands of Fiji · Jun – Oct 1938
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 12 islands of Fiji, June – October 19382,255 specimens · 28 stops · 115 days · 15,460 km
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
21 islands · Feb – Oct 1934
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman across 21 islands, February – October 19341,714 specimens · 56 stops · 248 days · 12,587 km
Albert C. Smith
16 islands · Oct 1933 – Jun 1934
Albert C. Smith across 16 islands, October 1933 – June 19342,049 specimens · 73 stops · 248 days · 76,386 km
Masahiko Takamatsu
31 islands · Dec 1935 – Jun 1936
Masahiko Takamatsu across 31 islands, December 1935 – June 19362,083 specimens · 77 stops · 205 days · 15,209 km
Ernani Meñez
50 islands · Jun – Sep 1960
Ernani Meñez across 50 islands, June – September 19602,317 specimens · 38 stops · 100 days · 40,857 km
Johnson Randall
27 islands · Dec 1970 – May 1971
Johnson Randall across 27 islands, December 1970 – May 19712,367 specimens · 98 stops · 175 days · 9,120 km
Kiyoko Kondo
13 islands · Dec 1935 – May 1936
Kiyoko Kondo across 13 islands, December 1935 – May 19362,220 specimens · 9 stops · 178 days · 6,033 km
Charles N. Forbes
5 islands of the United States · Jun – Dec 1917
Charles N. Forbes across 5 islands of the United States, June – December 19171,777 specimens · 29 stops · 163 days · 2,815 km
Donald Anderson
22 islands · Aug 1949 – Mar 1950
Donald Anderson across 22 islands, August 1949 – March 19501,249 specimens · 70 stops · 211 days · 151,545 km
Charles N. Forbes
3 islands of the United States · Mar – Jul 1920
Charles N. Forbes in Maui, Oʻahu and Lānaʻi, March – July 19201,158 specimens · 58 stops · 128 days · 1,111 km
How a journey is found
Every specimen with a full date and a known collector is a diary entry. The days are read in order; a gap of more than three weeks ends one journey and starts the next. Days spent where a collector lived most of their life are home, not travel, and are left out.
A journey needs at least five days, forty specimens and two places. Within it, a run of days spent within about ten kilometres is one stop; the stop’s point is the middle of the labels that carry coordinates, or the island’s centre when none do.
Companions are the people whose own labels put them in the same place on the same days. Staff can name a journey, write about it and feature it; everything else here is read straight off the specimens, and is rebuilt as the records improve.