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. 10 journeys so far, 1950 to 1958, 1,452 specimens between them.
9 collectors and expeditions309 days in the field104,130 km between stops598 photographed specimens
10 journeys match
Otto Degener
6 islands · Jun 1950 – Jan 1951
Otto Degener across 6 islands, June 1950 – January 1951256 specimens · 41 stops · 236 days · 2,367 km
Benjamin C. Stone
22 islands · Feb – Aug 1957
Benjamin C. Stone across 22 islands, February – August 1957301 specimens · 47 stops · 169 days · 33,594 km
Donald P. Abbott
4 islands · Jul – Oct 1953
Donald P. Abbott across 4 islands, July – October 1953221 specimens · 38 stops · 115 days
E.T. Moul
6 islands · Jun – Sep 1951
E.T. Moul across 6 islands, June – September 1951160 specimens · 50 stops · 93 days · 2,573 km
M. Bates
4 islands · Jul – Sep 1953
M. Bates across 4 islands, July – September 1953114 specimens · 13 stops · 64 days
Johnson Randall
5 islands · Feb – May 1956
Johnson Randall across 5 islands, February – May 1956111 specimens · 14 stops · 108 days · 128 km
station
17 islands · Aug – Dec 1956
station, August – December 195676 specimens · 33 stops · 130 days · 25,742 km
Otto Degener
4 islands · Jan – Feb 1958
Otto Degener across 4 islands, January – February 195884 specimens · 20 stops · 41 days · 13,268 km
Isa Degener
4 islands · Jan – Feb 1958
Isa Degener across 4 islands, January – February 195879 specimens · 20 stops · 41 days · 13,268 km
V Hugh M. Smith cruise 35
12 islands · Aug – Sep 1956
V Hugh M. Smith cruise 35, August – September 195650 specimens · 25 stops · 60 days · 13,190 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.