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. 6 journeys so far, 1945 to 1950, 2,895 specimens between them.
5 collectors and expeditions335 days in the field174,956 km between stops1,785 photographed specimens
6 journeys match
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
A.J. Bernatowicz
21 islands · Feb – Sep 1949
A.J. Bernatowicz across 21 islands, February – September 1949593 specimens · 106 stops · 209 days
R.S. Cowan
11 islands · Aug – Sep 1946
R.S. Cowan across 11 islands, August – September 1946484 specimens · 17 stops · 41 days · 1,023 km
Wm. R. Taylor
6 islands · Feb – Aug 1946
Wm. R. Taylor across 6 islands, February – August 1946242 specimens · 52 stops · 156 days · 5,901 km
Harold St.John
15 islands · Dec 1945 – May 1946
Harold St.John across 15 islands, December 1945 – May 1946194 specimens · 23 stops · 147 days · 16,487 km
Wm. R. Taylor
14 islands · Feb – May 1949
Wm. R. Taylor across 14 islands, February – May 1949133 specimens · 35 stops · 98 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.