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. 38 journeys so far, 1903 to 2011, 8,672 specimens between them.
31 collectors and expeditions1,052 days in the field308,755 km between stops6,721 photographed specimens
38 journeys match
van Royen
Australia · Jul – Oct 1965
van Royen in Australia, July – October 196578 specimens · 24 stops · 108 days
Timothy J. Gallaher
Australia and Dunk · 1–16 Dec 2011
Timothy J. Gallaher in Australia and Dunk, 1–16 December 201199 specimens · 12 stops · 16 days
W. Greuter
Australia · Sep – Oct 1988
W. Greuter in Australia, September – October 198864 specimens · 26 stops · 53 days
van Royen
Java and Australia · Nov 1974 – Jan 1975
van Royen in Java and Australia, November 1974 – January 197589 specimens · 8 stops · 62 days
J.E.R. Tilden
Tahiti and Australia · Aug – Sep 1912
J.E.R. Tilden in Tahiti and Australia, August – September 1912117 specimens · 7 stops · 32 days
K.U. Kramer
Australia · Sep – Oct 1986
K.U. Kramer in Australia, September – October 198673 specimens · 13 stops · 35 days
M.A. Evans
Australia · Sep 1967 – Jan 1968
M.A. Evans in Australia, September 1967 – January 196849 specimens · 15 stops · 108 days
S. Carlquist
Australia · Oct – Nov 1962
S. Carlquist in Australia, October – November 196251 specimens · 17 stops · 47 days
P.A. Fryxell
Australia · Apr – May 1983
P.A. Fryxell in Australia, April – May 198351 specimens · 20 stops · 27 days · 2,204 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
George Butler
Australia · Jan – Feb 1983
George Butler in Australia, January – February 198343 specimens · 15 stops · 21 days · 1,687 km
van Royen
South Island and Australia · Feb – Mar 1975
van Royen in South Island and Australia, February – March 197553 specimens · 4 stops · 29 days
M. Kramer
Australia · 6–16 Sep 1986
M. Kramer in Australia, 6–16 September 198641 specimens · 7 stops · 11 days
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.