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, 2011 to 2013, 461 specimens between them.
6 collectors and expeditions49 days in the field41 km between stops459 photographed specimens
6 journeys match
A. Kitalong
3 islands · 4–15 Nov 2013
A. Kitalong in Palau, Palao and Ngeruktabel, 4–15 November 201393 specimens · 8 stops · 12 days
Van-Ray Tadao
Palau and Palao · 4–21 Nov 2013
Van-Ray Tadao in Palau and Palao, 4–21 November 2013100 specimens · 5 stops · 18 days
M.J. Balick
Palau and Palao · 4–21 Nov 2013
M.J. Balick in Palau and Palao, 4–21 November 201387 specimens · 6 stops · 18 days
C. Costion
6 islands · Nov – Dec 2011
C. Costion across 6 islands, November – December 201150 specimens · 12 stops · 33 days · 41 km
K.K. Chen
Palau · 4–21 Nov 2013
K.K. Chen in Palau, 4–21 November 201374 specimens · 5 stops · 18 days
Gregory Plunkett
3 islands · 4–21 Nov 2013
Gregory Plunkett in Palau, Palao and Ngeruktabel, 4–21 November 201357 specimens · 5 stops · 18 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.