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. 12 journeys so far, 1950 to 1957, 4,787 specimens between them.
8 collectors and expeditions475 days in the field362,055 km between stops2,497 photographed specimens
12 journeys match
F. Raymond Fosberg
21 islands · Jan – Apr 1950
F. Raymond Fosberg across 21 islands, January – April 1950939 specimens · 61 stops · 96 days · 90,398 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
9 islands · May – Jul 1952
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 9 islands, May – July 1952877 specimens · 23 stops · 74 days · 18,027 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
21 islands · Nov 1951 – Apr 1952
F. Raymond Fosberg across 21 islands, November 1951 – April 1952672 specimens · 57 stops · 145 days · 13,644 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
14 islands · Mar – Sep 1956
F. Raymond Fosberg across 14 islands, March – September 1956258 specimens · 81 stops · 177 days · 16,398 km
L. Horwitz
3 islands · Jul – Aug 1951
L. Horwitz in Arno Atoll, Ine Island and Malel Island, July – August 1951506 specimens · 30 stops · 58 days
Benjamin C. Stone
22 islands · Feb – Aug 1957
Benjamin C. Stone across 22 islands, February – August 1957301 specimens · 47 stops · 169 days · 33,594 km
E.Y. Dawson
Enewetak Atoll and Mauke · Aug – Sep 1955
E.Y. Dawson in Enewetak Atoll and Mauke, August – September 1955435 specimens · 10 stops · 16 days
Benjamin C. Stone
13 islands · Nov 1955 – Feb 1956
Benjamin C. Stone across 13 islands, November 1955 – February 1956233 specimens · 36 stops · 93 days · 11,844 km
Reid Moran
3 islands · Jun – Sep 1954
Reid Moran in Guam, Tinian and California, June – September 1954197 specimens · 23 stops · 86 days · 127,923 km
Benjamin C. Stone
14 islands · Jun – Sep 1956
Benjamin C. Stone across 14 islands, June – September 1956168 specimens · 36 stops · 116 days · 49,852 km
Harold St.John
3 islands · Oct 1951 – Jan 1952
Harold St.John in Maui, Oʻahu and Maug, October 1951 – January 1952115 specimens · 15 stops · 85 days · 313 km
G. George D. Peterson
4 islands of the Northern Mariana Islands · May – Jun 1952
G. George D. Peterson across 4 islands of the Northern Mariana Islands, May – June 195286 specimens · 4 stops · 23 days · 62 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.