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. 53 journeys so far, 1902 to 2009, 17,965 specimens between them.
25 collectors and expeditions1,415 days in the field756,819 km between stops8,854 photographed specimens
53 journeys match
Vander Velde
3 islands of the Marshall Islands · 20–27 Oct 2009
Vander Velde in Namdrik Island, Madmad Island and Near Madmad, 20–27 October 200942 specimens · 7 stops · 8 days
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
Mary Ann Lee
3 islands · 12–18 Feb 1975
Mary Ann Lee in Enewetak Atoll, Enewetok Atoll and Eniwetok Atoll, 12–18 February 197548 specimens · 6 stops · 7 days
M. Gilmartin
Enewetak Atoll · Aug – Sep 1955
M. Gilmartin in Enewetak Atoll, August – September 195541 specimens · 6 stops · 10 days
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.