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. 6 journeys so far, 1993 to 1998, 596 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions111 days in the field13,441 km between stops484 photographed specimens
6 journeys match
J.C. Regalado Jr.
New Guinea and New Britain · Jun – Sep 1994
J.C. Regalado Jr. in New Guinea and New Britain, June – September 1994114 specimens · 19 stops · 88 days · 3,616 km
Pratita Puradyatmika
New Guinea · Jan – Mar 1998
Pratita Puradyatmika in New Guinea, January – March 1998114 specimens · 17 stops · 78 days · 3,724 km
Afrastini Ismail
New Guinea and Irian Jaya · May – Jun 1993
Afrastini Ismail in New Guinea and Irian Jaya, May – June 1993133 specimens · 7 stops · 24 days · 2,310 km
J.A. McDonald
New Guinea and Irian Jaya · May – Jun 1993
J.A. McDonald in New Guinea and Irian Jaya, May – June 1993131 specimens · 7 stops · 24 days · 2,310 km
J.C. Regalado Jr.
New Guinea · Jun – Jul 1995
J.C. Regalado Jr. in New Guinea, June – July 199561 specimens · 2 stops · 23 days · 624 km
J.C. Regalado Jr.
New Guinea and New Ireland · 1–16 Aug 1995
J.C. Regalado Jr. in New Guinea and New Ireland, 1–16 August 199543 specimens · 3 stops · 16 days · 857 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.