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. 4 journeys so far, 1909 to 1993, 638 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions99 days in the field31,721 km between stops617 photographed specimens
4 journeys match
J.A. McDonald
5 islands · Apr – Jul 1992
J.A. McDonald across 5 islands, April – July 1992263 specimens · 31 stops · 101 days · 31,570 km
J. Elbert
10 islands of Indonesia · Oct 1909 – Mar 1910
J. Elbert across 10 islands of Indonesia, October 1909 – March 1910102 specimens · 26 stops · 142 days
Afrastini Ismail
Kabaena and Sulawesi · Jul – Aug 1993
Afrastini Ismail in Kabaena and Sulawesi, July – August 1993141 specimens · 13 stops · 18 days · 66 km
J.A. McDonald
Kabaena and Sulawesi · Jul – Aug 1993
J.A. McDonald in Kabaena and Sulawesi, July – August 1993132 specimens · 12 stops · 18 days · 85 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.