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. 5 journeys so far, 1946 to 1950, 3,153 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions244 days in the field198,053 km between stops1,616 photographed specimens
5 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
Edward Yataro Hosaka
31 islands · Apr – Aug 1946
Edward Yataro Hosaka across 31 islands, April – August 1946872 specimens · 51 stops · 110 days · 43,680 km
Sydney Glassman
8 islands · Jun – Sep 1949
Sydney Glassman across 8 islands, June – September 1949524 specimens · 41 stops · 82 days · 1,957 km
Clarence C.Y. Wong
6 islands of Micronesia · Sep – Nov 1947
Clarence C.Y. Wong across 6 islands of Micronesia, September – November 1947201 specimens · 8 stops · 57 days
Clarence C.Y. Wong
Yap and Gagil-Tamil · Jan – Mar 1948
Clarence C.Y. Wong in Yap and Gagil-Tamil, January – March 1948307 specimens · 2 stops · 67 days · 871 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.