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. 36 journeys so far, 1902 to 1984, 10,460 specimens between them.
28 collectors and expeditions1,127 days in the field502,980 km between stops7,132 photographed specimens
36 journeys match
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
23 islands · May – Dec 1949
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 23 islands, May – December 19492,551 specimens · 57 stops · 218 days · 71,593 km
Johnson Randall
25 islands · Mar – Dec 1968
Johnson Randall across 25 islands, March – December 19681,676 specimens · 99 stops · 261 days · 106,577 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
21 islands · Jan – Apr 1950
F. Raymond Fosberg across 21 islands, January – April 1950939 specimens · 61 stops · 96 days · 90,398 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
21 islands · Nov 1951 – Apr 1952
F. Raymond Fosberg across 21 islands, November 1951 – April 1952672 specimens · 57 stops · 145 days · 13,644 km
Sh. Tawada
4 islands of Japan · Jun – Sep 1951
Sh. Tawada across 4 islands of Japan, June – September 1951345 specimens · 53 stops · 113 days
E.H. Walker
4 islands of Japan · Jun – Sep 1951
E.H. Walker across 4 islands of Japan, June – September 1951340 specimens · 53 stops · 113 days
F. Raymond Fosberg
14 islands · Mar – Sep 1956
F. Raymond Fosberg across 14 islands, March – September 1956258 specimens · 81 stops · 177 days · 16,398 km
A.M. Albert Mead
7 islands of Japan · Jun – Jul 1949
A.M. Albert Mead across 7 islands of Japan, June – July 1949380 specimens · 18 stops · 42 days · 844 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
5 islands · Nov 1953 – Feb 1954
F. Raymond Fosberg across 5 islands, November 1953 – February 1954343 specimens · 50 stops · 83 days · 28,095 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
3 islands · Jul – Aug 1946
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Chichi-Jima, July – August 1946326 specimens · 23 stops · 54 days · 465 km
T. Amano
Okinawa and Iriomote Island · Jun – Aug 1951
T. Amano in Okinawa and Iriomote Island, June – August 1951214 specimens · 31 stops · 63 days
Otto Degener
6 islands · Apr – Sep 1964
Otto Degener across 6 islands, April – September 1964168 specimens · 57 stops · 146 days · 10,662 km
Reid Moran
Okinawa · Feb – Apr 1955
Reid Moran in Okinawa, February – April 1955167 specimens · 32 stops · 75 days · 6,395 km
J.T. Conover
3 islands · May – Dec 1945
J.T. Conover in Okinawa, Luzon and Saipan, May – December 1945141 specimens · 32 stops · 207 days · 4,946 km
Isa Degener
6 islands · Apr – Sep 1964
Isa Degener across 6 islands, April – September 1964153 specimens · 55 stops · 146 days · 10,662 km
S. Sonohara
Okinawa and Ie Island · Jul – Aug 1951
S. Sonohara in Okinawa and Ie Island, July – August 1951195 specimens · 20 stops · 32 days
E.Y. Dawson
Okinawa and Luzon · Jan – Apr 1953
E.Y. Dawson in Okinawa and Luzon, January – April 1953138 specimens · 28 stops · 77 days · 1,234 km
Harold St.John
16 islands · Jun – Aug 1956
Harold St.John across 16 islands, June – August 1956140 specimens · 31 stops · 69 days · 26,065 km
J.T. Conover
Okinawa · Feb – Mar 1946
J.T. Conover in Okinawa, February – March 1946138 specimens · 13 stops · 24 days
Maxwell S. Doty
5 islands · Jun – Oct 1959
Maxwell S. Doty across 5 islands, June – October 1959110 specimens · 16 stops · 108 days · 14,276 km
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
J.T. Conover
3 islands · Jan – Apr 1945
J.T. Conover in Guam, Okinawa and Funafuti, January – April 194567 specimens · 28 stops · 89 days · 92,629 km
Maxwell S. Doty
3 islands · 1–28 Aug 1955
Maxwell S. Doty in Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Yoron Island, 1–28 August 195594 specimens · 8 stops · 28 days · 397 km
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
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.