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. 6 journeys so far, 1961 to 1974, 743 specimens between them.
5 collectors and expeditions188 days in the field36,282 km between stops597 photographed specimens
6 journeys match
A.J. Bernatowicz
6 islands · Dec 1961 – Apr 1962
A.J. Bernatowicz across 6 islands, December 1961 – April 1962229 specimens · 29 stops · 98 days
Otto Degener
6 islands · Apr – Sep 1964
Otto Degener across 6 islands, April – September 1964168 specimens · 57 stops · 146 days · 10,662 km
Isa Degener
6 islands · Apr – Sep 1964
Isa Degener across 6 islands, April – September 1964153 specimens · 55 stops · 146 days · 10,662 km
van Zanten
3 islands · Dec 1973 – Feb 1974
van Zanten in North Island, South Island and New Zealand, December 1973 – February 197480 specimens · 26 stops · 62 days · 14,958 km
G.C.G. Argent
Ireland and Great Britain · Jul – Sep 1966
G.C.G. Argent in Ireland and Great Britain, July – September 196662 specimens · 16 stops · 50 days
A.J. Bernatowicz
Great Britain · May – Jun 1962
A.J. Bernatowicz in Great Britain, May – June 196251 specimens · 3 stops · 5 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.