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. 3 journeys so far, 1932 to 1967, 833 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions54 days in the field24,474 km between stops772 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
C.R. Long
24 islands · Apr – Jul 1964
C.R. Long across 24 islands, April – July 1964264 specimens · 39 stops · 91 days · 15,404 km
Erling Christophersen
3 islands · May – Jul 1932
Erling Christophersen in Oʻahu, Kauaʻi and Tutuila, May – July 1932518 specimens · 4 stops · 57 days · 8,548 km
P.C. Hutchison
3 islands · 13–21 Jan 1967
P.C. Hutchison in Oʻahu, Kauaʻi and Tutuila, 13–21 January 196751 specimens · 8 stops · 9 days · 522 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.