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. 28 journeys so far, 1921 to 1929, 8,142 specimens between them.
14 collectors and expeditions847 days in the field136,813 km between stops5,770 photographed specimens
28 journeys match
Ernest H. Quayle
8 islands · Dec 1921 – Feb 1922
Ernest H. Quayle across 8 islands, December 1921 – February 192246 specimens · 12 stops · 57 days · 6,573 km
C.C. Curtis
6 islands · Apr – May 1922
C.C. Curtis across 6 islands, April – May 192263 specimens · 6 stops · 15 days · 21 km
C.C. Curtis
9 islands of French Polynesia · 5–29 Jun 1922
C.C. Curtis across 9 islands of French Polynesia, 5–29 June 192266 specimens · 9 stops · 25 days
A.M. Stokes
Raivavae · Mar – Apr 1922
A.M. Stokes in Raivavae, March – April 192255 specimens · 6 stops · 37 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.