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. 3 journeys so far, 1953 to 1957, 636 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions98 days in the field33,594 km between stops270 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
Benjamin C. Stone
22 islands · Feb – Aug 1957
Benjamin C. Stone across 22 islands, February – August 1957301 specimens · 47 stops · 169 days · 33,594 km
Donald P. Abbott
4 islands · Jul – Oct 1953
Donald P. Abbott across 4 islands, July – October 1953221 specimens · 38 stops · 115 days
M. Bates
4 islands · Jul – Sep 1953
M. Bates across 4 islands, July – September 1953114 specimens · 13 stops · 64 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.