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, 1945 to 1970, 4,659 specimens between them.
6 collectors and expeditions290 days in the field366,760 km between stops1,666 photographed specimens
7 journeys match
F. Raymond Fosberg
56 islands · Apr – Nov 1946
F. Raymond Fosberg across 56 islands, April – November 19462,439 specimens · 102 stops · 209 days · 105,682 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
21 islands · Jan – Apr 1950
F. Raymond Fosberg across 21 islands, January – April 1950939 specimens · 61 stops · 96 days · 90,398 km
Johnson Randall
15 islands of Palau · Mar – May 1970
Johnson Randall across 15 islands of Palau, March – May 1970432 specimens · 21 stops · 54 days · 44,188 km
Harold St.John
15 islands · Dec 1945 – May 1946
Harold St.John across 15 islands, December 1945 – May 1946194 specimens · 23 stops · 147 days · 16,487 km
Benjamin C. Stone
14 islands · Jun – Sep 1956
Benjamin C. Stone across 14 islands, June – September 1956168 specimens · 36 stops · 116 days · 49,852 km
Donald Anderson
8 islands · Apr – Jun 1950
Donald Anderson across 8 islands, April – June 1950193 specimens · 19 stops · 54 days · 16,195 km
A.R. Emery
11 islands of Palau · Mar – Apr 1970
A.R. Emery across 11 islands of Palau, March – April 1970294 specimens · 18 stops · 28 days · 43,958 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.