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. 5 journeys so far, 1982 to 1984, 360 specimens between them.
5 collectors and expeditions50 days in the field353 photographed specimens
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Journeys with photographed specimens5 journeys match
H. Okada
3 islands of Japan · 7–21 Mar 1982
H. Okada in Iriomote Island, Ishigaki Island and Iriomote, 7–21 March 198287 specimens · 12 stops · 15 days
A. Takahashi
3 islands of Japan · 7–21 Mar 1982
A. Takahashi in Iriomote Island, Ishigaki Island and Iriomote, 7–21 March 198281 specimens · 12 stops · 15 days
H. Nagamasu
3 islands of Japan · 7–21 Mar 1982
H. Nagamasu in Iriomote Island, Ishigaki Island and Iriomote, 7–21 March 198278 specimens · 12 stops · 15 days
M. Ito
Iriomote Island and Iriomote · 8–17 Mar 1982
M. Ito in Iriomote Island and Iriomote, 8–17 March 198252 specimens · 9 stops · 10 days
G.G. Murata
Honshu · May – Jun 1984
G.G. Murata in Honshu, May – June 198462 specimens · 5 stops · 15 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.