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. 13 journeys so far, 1940 to 1950, 8,466 specimens between them.
10 collectors and expeditions512 days in the field459,074 km between stops5,522 photographed specimens
13 journeys match
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
23 islands · May – Dec 1949
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 23 islands, May – December 19492,551 specimens · 57 stops · 218 days · 71,593 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
56 islands · Apr – Nov 1946
F. Raymond Fosberg across 56 islands, April – November 19462,439 specimens · 102 stops · 209 days · 105,682 km
Donald Anderson
22 islands · Aug 1949 – Mar 1950
Donald Anderson across 22 islands, August 1949 – March 19501,249 specimens · 70 stops · 211 days · 151,545 km
Edward Yataro Hosaka
31 islands · Apr – Aug 1946
Edward Yataro Hosaka across 31 islands, April – August 1946872 specimens · 51 stops · 110 days · 43,680 km
Harold St.John
5 islands · Sep 1947 – Jan 1948
Harold St.John across 5 islands, September 1947 – January 1948276 specimens · 21 stops · 126 days · 13,296 km
Donald P. Rogers
11 islands · Apr – Sep 1946
Donald P. Rogers across 11 islands, April – September 1946275 specimens · 28 stops · 162 days · 6,269 km
J.T. Conover
3 islands · May – Dec 1945
J.T. Conover in Okinawa, Luzon and Saipan, May – December 1945141 specimens · 32 stops · 207 days · 4,946 km
Harold St.John
15 islands · Dec 1945 – May 1946
Harold St.John across 15 islands, December 1945 – May 1946194 specimens · 23 stops · 147 days · 16,487 km
Harold St.John
11 islands · Jul – Aug 1949
Harold St.John across 11 islands, July – August 1949180 specimens · 15 stops · 30 days · 6,890 km
David F. Grether
5 islands · Jul – Aug 1946
David F. Grether across 5 islands, July – August 1946121 specimens · 10 stops · 38 days · 37,731 km
T. Hosokawa
Pohnpei and Ponape · Aug – Sep 1940
T. Hosokawa in Pohnpei and Ponape, August – September 194059 specimens · 18 stops · 41 days
T. Hosokawa
5 islands · Jul – Sep 1941
T. Hosokawa across 5 islands, July – September 194162 specimens · 13 stops · 56 days · 829 km
W. Harry Lange
Saipan · Mar – Apr 1948
W. Harry Lange in Saipan, March – April 194847 specimens · 2 stops · 33 days · 126 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.