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. 7 journeys so far, 1935 to 1986, 14,842 specimens between them.
6 collectors and expeditions418 days in the field278,371 km between stops12,196 photographed specimens
7 journeys match
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
22 islands of Palau · Dec 1935 – Jun 1936
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 22 islands of Palau, December 1935 – June 19366,659 specimens · 16 stops · 189 days · 15,221 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
23 islands · May – Dec 1949
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 23 islands, May – December 19492,551 specimens · 57 stops · 218 days · 71,593 km
Masahiko Takamatsu
31 islands · Dec 1935 – Jun 1936
Masahiko Takamatsu across 31 islands, December 1935 – June 19362,083 specimens · 77 stops · 205 days · 15,209 km
Ernani Meñez
50 islands · Jun – Sep 1960
Ernani Meñez across 50 islands, June – September 19602,317 specimens · 38 stops · 100 days · 40,857 km
Edward Yataro Hosaka
31 islands · Apr – Aug 1946
Edward Yataro Hosaka across 31 islands, April – August 1946872 specimens · 51 stops · 110 days · 43,680 km
Donald Anderson
8 islands · Apr – Jun 1950
Donald Anderson across 8 islands, April – June 1950193 specimens · 19 stops · 54 days · 16,195 km
Johnson Randall
8 islands · Jun – Sep 1986
Johnson Randall across 8 islands, June – September 1986167 specimens · 23 stops · 68 days · 75,616 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.