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, 1969 to 1994, 751 specimens between them.
5 collectors and expeditions105 days in the field43,992 km between stops729 photographed specimens
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Journeys with photographed specimens6 journeys match
H.P. Nooteboom
3 islands · Mar – May 1970
H.P. Nooteboom in Borneo, Sarawak and Sabah, March – May 1970344 specimens · 34 stops · 62 days · 5,549 km
H.P. Nooteboom
3 islands · Jan – Mar 1969
H.P. Nooteboom in Borneo, Sabah and Java, January – March 1969194 specimens · 27 stops · 73 days · 38,443 km
Seymour H. Sohmer
6 islands · 6–27 Nov 1983
Seymour H. Sohmer across 6 islands, 6–27 November 198368 specimens · 6 stops · 22 days
E. Soepadmo
Borneo and Sabah · 4–13 Apr 1994
E. Soepadmo in Borneo and Sabah, 4–13 April 199458 specimens · 5 stops · 10 days
T. Khalkausar
Borneo and Sabah · 4–13 Apr 1994
T. Khalkausar in Borneo and Sabah, 4–13 April 199445 specimens · 6 stops · 10 days
R. George
Borneo and Sabah · 4–13 Apr 1994
R. George in Borneo and Sabah, 4–13 April 199442 specimens · 6 stops · 10 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.