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. 3 journeys so far, 1965 to 1968, 282 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions58 days in the field2,436 km between stops271 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
C.D. Sayers
New Britain · Feb – Mar 1965
C.D. Sayers in New Britain, February – March 1965159 specimens · 5 stops · 31 days · 222 km
D.G. Frodin
New Britain and Marklo Island · Mar – May 1966
D.G. Frodin in New Britain and Marklo Island, March – May 196671 specimens · 15 stops · 84 days · 2,009 km
E.E. Henty
New Britain · 14–27 May 1968
E.E. Henty in New Britain, 14–27 May 196852 specimens · 6 stops · 14 days · 205 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.