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. 55 journeys so far, 1922 to 2009, 20,132 specimens between them.
44 collectors and expeditions1,717 days in the field660,137 km between stops14,275 photographed specimens
55 journeys match
Diane Ragone
15 islands · Jun – Aug 1987
Diane Ragone across 15 islands, June – August 198746 specimens · 19 stops · 77 days · 29,774 km
J. Cooper
7 islands · Jul – Aug 1962
J. Cooper across 7 islands, July – August 196257 specimens · 3 stops · 32 days · 5,566 km
L. Wester
3 islands · 1–22 Aug 1983
L. Wester in Washington (=Teraina), Fanning (=Tabuaeran) and Ua Huka, 1–22 August 198360 specimens · 4 stops · 22 days
William G. or J Coultas
Tutuila and Savaii · Sep – Oct 1936
William G. or J Coultas in Tutuila and Savaii, September – October 193650 specimens · 3 stops · 42 days · 207 km
R.W. Clegern
4 islands of Kiribati · 1–19 Sep 1973
R.W. Clegern across 4 islands of Kiribati, 1–19 September 197383 specimens · 2 stops · 19 days
John L. Earle
Kiritimati Atoll · 21–30 Jul 2005
John L. Earle in Kiritimati Atoll, 21–30 July 200564 specimens · 6 stops · 10 days · 182 km
R. Kanehira
6 islands · Jun – Jul 1931
R. Kanehira across 6 islands, June – July 193153 specimens · 2 stops · 8 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.