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, 2005 to 2009, 246 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions56 days in the field1,904 km between stops118 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
T. Watanabe
7 islands · Jul – Aug 2009
T. Watanabe across 7 islands, July – August 2009138 specimens · 11 stops · 40 days · 1,464 km
D. Ama
New Guinea · Aug – Sep 2005
D. Ama in New Guinea, August – September 200554 specimens · 4 stops · 20 days · 220 km
Al. Towati
New Guinea · Aug – Sep 2005
Al. Towati in New Guinea, August – September 200554 specimens · 4 stops · 20 days · 220 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.