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. 4 journeys so far, 1990 to 1992, 303 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions34 days in the field23 photographed specimens
4 journeys match
H. Koyama
New Caledonia · Feb – Mar 1992
H. Koyama in New Caledonia, February – March 1992111 specimens · 12 stops · 25 days
Ch. Tanaka
New Caledonia · 5–15 Mar 1992
Ch. Tanaka in New Caledonia, 5–15 March 199277 specimens · 7 stops · 11 days
Y. Doi
New Caledonia · Feb – Mar 1992
Y. Doi in New Caledonia, February – March 199252 specimens · 8 stops · 25 days
Johnson Randall
5 islands of New Caledonia · Mar – Apr 1990
Johnson Randall across 5 islands of New Caledonia, March – April 199063 specimens · 3 stops · 12 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.