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, 1961 to 2013, 273 specimens between them.
6 collectors and expeditions95 days in the field265 photographed specimens
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Journeys with photographed specimens6 journeys match
K. Fujikawa
Myanmar · Aug – Sep 2013
K. Fujikawa in Myanmar, August – September 201349 specimens · 17 stops · 26 days
C. Maknoi
Myanmar · Aug – Sep 2013
C. Maknoi in Myanmar, August – September 201349 specimens · 17 stops · 26 days
P. Srisanga
Myanmar · Aug – Sep 2013
P. Srisanga in Myanmar, August – September 201349 specimens · 17 stops · 26 days
L. Shine
Myanmar · Aug – Sep 2013
L. Shine in Myanmar, August – September 201344 specimens · 16 stops · 26 days
L.S. Mang
Myanmar and Myanmur · Jun – Jul 2013
L.S. Mang in Myanmar and Myanmur, June – July 201340 specimens · 14 stops · 46 days
Harold St.John
Reunion and Direction Island · Jan – Mar 1961
Harold St.John in Reunion and Direction Island, January – March 196142 specimens · 12 stops · 54 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.