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. 64 journeys so far, 1903 to 2011, 12,466 specimens between them.
45 collectors and expeditions1,550 days in the field434,483 km between stops8,940 photographed specimens
64 journeys match
C. Costion
6 islands · Nov – Dec 2011
C. Costion across 6 islands, November – December 201150 specimens · 12 stops · 33 days · 41 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
10 islands · May – Jul 1973
F. Raymond Fosberg across 10 islands, May – July 197356 specimens · 17 stops · 45 days
van der Klip
Australia · Sep – Oct 1986
van der Klip in Australia, September – October 198648 specimens · 12 stops · 35 days
J.M. Powell
Australia · Aug – Sep 1979
J.M. Powell in Australia, August – September 197942 specimens · 17 stops · 33 days
John August Kusche
Prince Of Wales · 1–14 Nov 1920
John August Kusche in Prince Of Wales, 1–14 November 1920130 specimens · 2 stops · 14 days
George Butler
Australia · Jan – Feb 1983
George Butler in Australia, January – February 198343 specimens · 15 stops · 21 days · 1,687 km
Harold St.John
Reunion and Direction Island · Jan – Mar 1961
Harold St.John in Reunion and Direction Island, January – March 196142 specimens · 12 stops · 54 days
W.R. Sykes
Norfolk Island and Norfolk · 7–20 Apr 1980
W.R. Sykes in Norfolk Island and Norfolk, 7–20 April 198044 specimens · 14 stops · 14 days
A. Moscal
Tasmania · 5–19 Apr 1984
A. Moscal in Tasmania, 5–19 April 198449 specimens · 9 stops · 15 days · 1,622 km
S.R. Hill
Australia · 13–28 Mar 2004
S.R. Hill in Australia, 13–28 March 200447 specimens · 7 stops · 16 days
H.B.S. Womersley
Kangaroo · 13–21 Jan 1965
H.B.S. Womersley in Kangaroo, 13–21 January 196549 specimens · 7 stops · 9 days
van Royen
South Island and Australia · Feb – Mar 1975
van Royen in South Island and Australia, February – March 197553 specimens · 4 stops · 29 days
L.A. Doore
Tasmania · Nov – Dec 1934
L.A. Doore in Tasmania, November – December 193440 specimens · 5 stops · 43 days
M. Kramer
Australia · 6–16 Sep 1986
M. Kramer in Australia, 6–16 September 198641 specimens · 7 stops · 11 days
van Royen
3 countries · Jun – Aug 1979
van Royen in the Netherlands, the United States and Australia, June – August 197948 specimens · 8 stops · 44 days
H.B.S. Womersley
Australia · 10–19 Aug 1957
H.B.S. Womersley in Australia, 10–19 August 195755 specimens · 2 stops · 10 days
How a journey is found
Every specimen with a full date (year, month and day; a bare “1 January” is treated as a missing day) and a named collector is a diary entry. For each collector the days are read in order, each day given the place most of its labels name. The place where a collector spent more than forty percent of their days, and at least sixty of them, is home: days there are left out.
A gap of more than 21 days between collecting days ends one journey and begins the next. A journey must run five to four hundred days, hold at least forty specimens and touch at least two places. Within it, consecutive days inside the same or a neighbouring tenth-of-a-degree cell (about eleven kilometres) are one stop; the stop’s point is the mean of its labels’ coordinates, or the island’s centre when none carry any.
Companions are collectors whose own labels put them in the same cell on the same days. Staff can name a journey, write about it, feature it or hide it; those words survive every rebuild. Everything else is read off the specimens and rebuilt by harvest.mjs expeditions as the records improve.