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. 17 journeys so far, 1929 to 2007, 10,159 specimens between them.
14 collectors and expeditions697 days in the field590,950 km between stops5,081 photographed specimens
17 journeys match
F. Raymond Fosberg
56 islands · Apr – Nov 1946
F. Raymond Fosberg across 56 islands, April – November 19462,439 specimens · 102 stops · 209 days · 105,682 km
Ernani Meñez
50 islands · Jun – Sep 1960
Ernani Meñez across 50 islands, June – September 19602,317 specimens · 38 stops · 100 days · 40,857 km
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
M.A. Evans
13 islands · Nov 1965 – May 1966
M.A. Evans across 13 islands, November 1965 – May 1966591 specimens · 63 stops · 208 days · 85,825 km
R.L. Stemmermann
28 islands · Nov 1977 – Feb 1978
R.L. Stemmermann across 28 islands, November 1977 – February 1978620 specimens · 70 stops · 102 days · 20,526 km
T. Hosokawa
17 islands · Jul – Nov 1933
T. Hosokawa across 17 islands, July – November 1933500 specimens · 50 stops · 137 days · 17,296 km
Edward Yataro Hosaka
4 islands · Jun – Sep 1936
Edward Yataro Hosaka across 4 islands, June – September 1936232 specimens · 37 stops · 84 days · 4 km
Johnson Randall
5 islands of Micronesia · Jun – Nov 1969
Johnson Randall across 5 islands of Micronesia, June – November 1969322 specimens · 40 stops · 139 days · 27,973 km
T. Hosokawa
15 islands · Jul – Sep 1936
T. Hosokawa across 15 islands, July – September 1936207 specimens · 23 stops · 64 days · 6,008 km
R. Kanehira
18 islands · Jun – Aug 1929
R. Kanehira across 18 islands, June – August 1929195 specimens · 28 stops · 90 days · 12,115 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
Benjamin C. Stone
11 islands · Dec 1964 – Feb 1965
Benjamin C. Stone across 11 islands, December 1964 – February 1965145 specimens · 14 stops · 51 days · 64,561 km
G.J. Spence
6 islands · Jan – Mar 1977
G.J. Spence across 6 islands, January – March 197788 specimens · 14 stops · 63 days · 10,053 km
B.M. Waterhouse
9 islands · Mar – Apr 2000
B.M. Waterhouse across 9 islands, March – April 200079 specimens · 8 stops · 14 days · 2,751 km
Brian D. Greene
8 islands · 9–27 Apr 2007
Brian D. Greene across 8 islands, 9–27 April 200749 specimens · 9 stops · 19 days · 2,074 km
R. Kanehira
6 islands · Jun – Jul 1931
R. Kanehira across 6 islands, June – July 193153 specimens · 2 stops · 8 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.