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. 52 journeys so far, 1903 to 2008, 16,113 specimens between them.
30 collectors and expeditions1,344 days in the field540,263 km between stops9,856 photographed specimens
52 journeys match
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
E.P. Hume
3 islands · Jun – Sep 1931
E.P. Hume in Savaii, Tutuila and Upolu, June – September 1931761 specimens · 47 stops · 92 days · 225 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
3 islands · Mar – May 1936
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Guam, Maguao and Tutuila, March – May 1936849 specimens · 17 stops · 38 days · 136,355 km
Erling Christophersen
3 islands · Dec 1930 – May 1931
Erling Christophersen in Oʻahu, Kahoʻolawe and Tutuila, December 1930 – May 1931529 specimens · 26 stops · 149 days · 9,626 km
C.R. Long
29 islands · Aug – Nov 1964
C.R. Long across 29 islands, August – November 1964467 specimens · 49 stops · 103 days · 19,051 km
M.M. Fleischer
13 islands · Feb – Jun 1903
M.M. Fleischer across 13 islands, February – June 1903411 specimens · 33 stops · 113 days · 52,279 km
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
4 islands · May – Aug 1940
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman across 4 islands, May – August 1940616 specimens · 10 stops · 86 days · 181 km
Truman George Yuncker
6 islands · Sep – Dec 1939
Truman George Yuncker across 6 islands, September – December 1939573 specimens · 26 stops · 81 days · 2,624 km
Harold St.John
7 islands · Apr – Aug 1937
Harold St.John across 7 islands, April – August 1937459 specimens · 38 stops · 139 days · 68,706 km
Erling Christophersen
3 islands · Aug – Sep 1929
Erling Christophersen in Upolu, Tutuila and Ofu, August – September 1929587 specimens · 24 stops · 37 days · 31 km
W.A. Whistler
7 islands · May – Aug 1975
W.A. Whistler across 7 islands, May – August 1975447 specimens · 44 stops · 90 days · 980 km
W.R. Sykes
4 islands · Sep – Dec 1965
W.R. Sykes across 4 islands, September – December 1965336 specimens · 55 stops · 98 days · 5,255 km
M.L. Dailer
9 islands · Jan – Mar 2006
M.L. Dailer across 9 islands, January – March 2006800 specimens · 8 stops · 46 days · 3,681 km
W.A. Whistler
11 islands · May 1976 – Jan 1977
W.A. Whistler across 11 islands, May 1976 – January 1977301 specimens · 62 stops · 237 days · 2,182 km
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
K.N. Page
10 islands · Jan – Feb 2004
K.N. Page across 10 islands, January – February 2004679 specimens · 8 stops · 45 days · 4,821 km
Harold St.John
6 islands · Nov 1955 – Jan 1956
Harold St.John across 6 islands, November 1955 – January 1956293 specimens · 22 stops · 65 days · 13,814 km
W.A. Whistler
8 islands · Jan – Apr 1974
W.A. Whistler across 8 islands, January – April 1974352 specimens · 31 stops · 99 days · 522 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
Erling Christophersen
5 islands · Oct – Nov 1929
Erling Christophersen across 5 islands, October – November 1929315 specimens · 20 stops · 44 days · 283 km
W. Schultze-Motel
6 islands · Apr – Jun 1972
W. Schultze-Motel across 6 islands, April – June 1972161 specimens · 46 stops · 77 days · 448 km
Hugh Shaw MacKee
9 islands · Jul – Sep 1955
Hugh Shaw MacKee across 9 islands, July – September 1955222 specimens · 28 stops · 64 days · 5,455 km
C.R. Long
9 islands · Jun – Jul 1965
C.R. Long across 9 islands, June – July 1965244 specimens · 17 stops · 33 days · 2,563 km
W.A. Whistler
3 islands · Jun – Aug 1972
W.A. Whistler in Upolu, Savaii and Tutuila, June – August 1972175 specimens · 25 stops · 53 days · 464 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.