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. 36 journeys so far, 1971 to 1979, 5,640 specimens between them.
29 collectors and expeditions797 days in the field105,527 km between stops3,914 photographed specimens
36 journeys match
Y. Lelean
Lavongai and New Ireland · Sep – Oct 1974
Y. Lelean in Lavongai and New Ireland, September – October 1974104 specimens · 4 stops · 46 days · 315 km
Donald Bruce Foreman
Manus Island · Oct – Nov 1974
Donald Bruce Foreman in Manus Island, October – November 197459 specimens · 6 stops · 13 days · 502 km
Y. Lelean
8 islands of Papua New Guinea · 2–27 Oct 1971
Y. Lelean across 8 islands of Papua New Guinea, 2–27 October 197146 specimens · 8 stops · 26 days · 1,028 km
Heinar Streimann
7 islands of Papua New Guinea · 21–27 Oct 1971
Heinar Streimann across 7 islands of Papua New Guinea, 21–27 October 197149 specimens · 7 stops · 7 days · 379 km
Judson Linsley Gressitt
New Caledonia · Jan – Mar 1972
Judson Linsley Gressitt in New Caledonia, January – March 197251 specimens · 14 stops · 81 days · 1,654 km
R.C. Phillips
4 islands · Jun – Jul 1973
R.C. Phillips across 4 islands, June – July 197355 specimens · 4 stops · 26 days · 4,659 km
B.J. Conn
3 islands of Papua New Guinea · Sep – Oct 1974
B.J. Conn in Umboi Island, New Guinea and Umboi, September – October 197445 specimens · 4 stops · 52 days · 516 km
K.Q. Damas
4 islands of Papua New Guinea · 1–29 Mar 1979
K.Q. Damas across 4 islands of Papua New Guinea, 1–29 March 197950 specimens · 4 stops · 29 days · 258 km
Donald P. Abbott
4 islands · Jun – Jul 1973
Donald P. Abbott across 4 islands, June – July 197349 specimens · 4 stops · 26 days · 4,659 km
T. Umba
New Guinea · Mar – May 1975
T. Umba in New Guinea, March – May 197561 specimens · 2 stops · 45 days · 353 km
Heinar Streimann
Manus Island and Los Negros · 17–25 Jun 1971
Heinar Streimann in Manus Island and Los Negros, 17–25 June 197155 specimens · 3 stops · 9 days · 80 km
K. Taho
New Guinea · Aug – Sep 1973
K. Taho in New Guinea, August – September 197341 specimens · 2 stops · 7 days · 56 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.