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, 1956 to 2005, 896 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions115 days in the field29,001 km between stops2 photographed specimens
6 journeys match
Johnson Randall
8 islands of the Marshall Islands · Sep – Dec 1982
Johnson Randall across 8 islands of the Marshall Islands, September – December 1982435 specimens · 30 stops · 84 days · 895 km
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
Lewis W. Bell
Enewetak Atoll and Kwajalein Atoll · Sep – Oct 1982
Lewis W. Bell in Enewetak Atoll and Kwajalein Atoll, September – October 1982166 specimens · 4 stops · 15 days · 895 km
Johnson Randall
Enewetak Atoll and Kwajalein Atoll · Nov – Dec 1974
Johnson Randall in Enewetak Atoll and Kwajalein Atoll, November – December 197462 specimens · 9 stops · 24 days · 901 km
Brian D. Greene
Majuro Atoll and Kwajalein Atoll · Dec 2004 – Jan 2005
Brian D. Greene in Majuro Atoll and Kwajalein Atoll, December 2004 – January 200546 specimens · 4 stops · 17 days · 440 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.