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, 1980 to 1988, 2,184 specimens between them.
7 collectors and expeditions202 days in the field210,862 km between stops1,092 photographed specimens
10 journeys match
F. Raymond Fosberg
13 islands · Jun – Sep 1980
F. Raymond Fosberg across 13 islands, June – September 1980538 specimens · 66 stops · 98 days · 125,697 km
Derral R. Herbst
4 islands · May – Jun 1984
Derral R. Herbst across 4 islands, May – June 1984431 specimens · 14 stops · 28 days
Robert Hobdy
17 islands · Apr – Aug 1982
Robert Hobdy across 17 islands, April – August 1982250 specimens · 24 stops · 106 days · 16,977 km
Derral R. Herbst
10 islands · Jun – Jul 1980
Derral R. Herbst across 10 islands, June – July 1980210 specimens · 14 stops · 48 days · 1,684 km
Derral R. Herbst
8 islands · Feb – Mar 1984
Derral R. Herbst across 8 islands, February – March 1984370 specimens · 9 stops · 18 days · 1,158 km
Derral R. Herbst
10 islands · 1–25 Sep 1988
Derral R. Herbst across 10 islands, 1–25 September 1988174 specimens · 13 stops · 25 days
Maxwell S. Doty
3 islands · Feb – Jul 1982
Maxwell S. Doty in Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi Island and Mwand Peidak, February – July 198274 specimens · 9 stops · 147 days · 780 km
Diane Ragone
15 islands · Jun – Aug 1987
Diane Ragone across 15 islands, June – August 198746 specimens · 19 stops · 77 days · 29,774 km
W. Teraoka
Guam and Yap · Mar – Apr 1981
W. Teraoka in Guam and Yap, March – April 198147 specimens · 8 stops · 19 days · 17,396 km
Y. Sagawa
Guam and Yap · Mar – Apr 1981
Y. Sagawa in Guam and Yap, March – April 198144 specimens · 8 stops · 19 days · 17,396 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.