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. 13 journeys so far, 1902 to 2002, 4,863 specimens between them.
12 collectors and expeditions548 days in the field132,530 km between stops2,739 photographed specimens
13 journeys match
F. Raymond Fosberg
32 islands · Apr – Oct 1934
F. Raymond Fosberg across 32 islands, April – October 19342,503 specimens · 85 stops · 201 days · 23,387 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
22 islands · Jun – Dec 1968
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 22 islands, June – December 1968642 specimens · 45 stops · 180 days · 13,960 km
Johnson Randall
6 islands of Chile · Jan – Mar 1969
Johnson Randall across 6 islands of Chile, January – March 1969503 specimens · 38 stops · 78 days · 8,647 km
A.W. Stewart
17 islands · Jul 1905 – Apr 1906
A.W. Stewart across 17 islands, July 1905 – April 1906215 specimens · 62 stops · 287 days
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
13 islands · Feb – Jun 1966
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 13 islands, February – June 1966155 specimens · 40 stops · 141 days · 4,507 km
Carl Skottsberg
7 islands of Chile · Nov 1916 – May 1917
Carl Skottsberg across 7 islands of Chile, November 1916 – May 1917122 specimens · 59 stops · 174 days
Jan Newhouse
6 islands · Dec 1968 – Feb 1969
Jan Newhouse across 6 islands, December 1968 – February 1969162 specimens · 13 stops · 62 days · 4,798 km
J.C. Chapin
15 islands · Oct 1934 – Jan 1935
J.C. Chapin across 15 islands, October 1934 – January 1935125 specimens · 26 stops · 107 days · 13,508 km
I. Skottsberg
6 islands of Chile · Nov 1916 – May 1917
I. Skottsberg across 6 islands of Chile, November 1916 – May 1917102 specimens · 55 stops · 174 days
Kenneth R. Wood
3 islands · Mar – May 2002
Kenneth R. Wood in Rapa, Easter Island (=Isla De Pascua) and Austral Islands, March – May 2002119 specimens · 11 stops · 55 days · 57,573 km
T.J. Motley
4 islands · Mar – May 2002
T.J. Motley across 4 islands, March – May 200281 specimens · 4 stops · 67 days · 5,882 km
R. Fenstemacher
3 islands · Mar – May 2002
R. Fenstemacher in Rapa, Tauturau and Easter Island (=Isla De Pascua), March – May 200292 specimens · 3 stops · 55 days · 268 km
C.L. Pollard
Cuba · Jan – Feb 1902
C.L. Pollard in Cuba, January – February 190242 specimens · 8 stops · 39 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.