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. 10 journeys so far, 1923 to 2002, 3,983 specimens between them.
7 collectors and expeditions351 days in the field101,798 km between stops1,855 photographed specimens
10 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
Johnson Randall
10 islands · Jan – Apr 1973
Johnson Randall across 10 islands, January – April 1973499 specimens · 49 stops · 110 days · 10,184 km
Robert H. Snider
14 islands · Sep 1964 – Jan 1965
Robert H. Snider across 14 islands, September 1964 – January 1965519 specimens · 28 stops · 139 days · 19,940 km
Johnson Randall
5 islands · Jun – Dec 1971
Johnson Randall across 5 islands, June – December 1971221 specimens · 23 stops · 158 days · 27,137 km
V.G. Springer
13 islands of Fiji · Apr – Jun 1982
V.G. Springer across 13 islands of Fiji, April – June 198295 specimens · 17 stops · 46 days · 1,834 km
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
5 islands · Jan – Apr 1986
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 5 islands, January – April 198662 specimens · 10 stops · 77 days · 2,638 km
Johnson Randall
3 islands of Fiji · Jan – Mar 1991
Johnson Randall in Norfolk Island, Viti Levu and Lord Howe, January – March 199140 specimens · 9 stops · 42 days · 2,296 km
R. Lubbock
New Caledonia and Viti Levu · 11–20 Mar 1975
R. Lubbock in New Caledonia and Viti Levu, 11–20 March 197543 specimens · 5 stops · 10 days · 2,851 km
Richard H. Randall
Viti Levu and New Caledonia · 7–14 Aug 1971
Richard H. Randall in Viti Levu and New Caledonia, 7–14 August 197171 specimens · 2 stops · 8 days · 2,851 km
Johnson Randall
3 islands of Fiji · 12–24 Mar 2002
Johnson Randall in Nananu-I-Cake Island, Charybdis Reef and Viti Levu, 12–24 March 200241 specimens · 4 stops · 13 days · 1,140 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.