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. 28 journeys so far, 2000 to 2009, 2,355 specimens between them.
22 collectors and expeditions380 days in the field97,935 km between stops1,329 photographed specimens
28 journeys match
Emos Eperiam
Pohnpei · Apr – May 2007
Emos Eperiam in Pohnpei, April – May 200755 specimens · 4 stops · 16 days · 386 km
Richard L. Pyle
6 islands · 11–28 Apr 2007
Richard L. Pyle across 6 islands, 11–28 April 200743 specimens · 8 stops · 18 days · 1,784 km
M.J. Balick
4 islands of Micronesia · 5–17 Aug 2002
M.J. Balick across 4 islands of Micronesia, 5–17 August 200261 specimens · 3 stops · 13 days · 117 km
Reilo Langsi
Pohnpei · Apr – May 2007
Reilo Langsi in Pohnpei, April – May 200746 specimens · 2 stops · 16 days · 21 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.