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. 5 journeys so far, 1940 to 1949, 470 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions78 days in the field5,099 km between stops292 photographed specimens
5 journeys match
John T. Buchholz
New Caledonia and Viti Levu · Aug 1947 – Jan 1948
John T. Buchholz in New Caledonia and Viti Levu, August 1947 – January 1948157 specimens · 43 stops · 134 days · 1,760 km
Lynette Williams
3 islands of New Caledonia · Aug – Sep 1940
Lynette Williams in New Caledonia, Grande-Terre and Grande Terre, August – September 1940126 specimens · 8 stops · 42 days
John T. Buchholz
3 islands · Feb – Mar 1948
John T. Buchholz in New Caledonia, Isle Of Pines and New Guinea, February – March 194862 specimens · 13 stops · 51 days
Lynette Williams
4 islands of New Caledonia · Oct – Nov 1940
Lynette Williams across 4 islands of New Caledonia, October – November 194060 specimens · 7 stops · 29 days · 3,339 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
Grande-Terre and New Caledonia · Jun – Aug 1949
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Grande-Terre and New Caledonia, June – August 194965 specimens · 5 stops · 36 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.