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. 30 journeys so far, 1935 to 2022, 12,520 specimens between them.
27 collectors and expeditions702 days in the field291,610 km between stops8,513 photographed specimens
30 journeys match
Benjamin C. Stone
5 islands · Feb – Mar 1970
Benjamin C. Stone across 5 islands, February – March 197043 specimens · 11 stops · 27 days
Clay Trauernicht
7 islands · Jan – Feb 2008
Clay Trauernicht across 7 islands, January – February 200845 specimens · 10 stops · 18 days · 94 km
Gregory Plunkett
3 islands · 4–21 Nov 2013
Gregory Plunkett in Palau, Palao and Ngeruktabel, 4–21 November 201357 specimens · 5 stops · 18 days
David H. Lorence
9 islands · 15–26 Jan 2008
David H. Lorence across 9 islands, 15–26 January 200874 specimens · 6 stops · 12 days · 213 km
Ben Nyberg
6 islands · Jun – Jul 2022
Ben Nyberg across 6 islands, June – July 202245 specimens · 7 stops · 18 days
S. Hanser
4 islands · Jun – Jul 2022
S. Hanser across 4 islands, June – July 202244 specimens · 5 stops · 14 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.