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, 2008 to 2009, 391 specimens between them.
2 collectors and expeditions72 days in the field35,152 km between stops351 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
Steven Perlman
7 islands · Jan – Apr 2009
Steven Perlman across 7 islands, January – April 2009157 specimens · 25 stops · 94 days · 15,389 km
Steven Perlman
9 islands · Sep – Dec 2008
Steven Perlman across 9 islands, September – December 2008122 specimens · 20 stops · 81 days · 10,371 km
W. Law
4 islands · Feb – Apr 2009
W. Law across 4 islands, February – April 2009112 specimens · 14 stops · 44 days · 9,392 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.