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. 9 journeys so far, 1971 to 1977, 1,981 specimens between them.
8 collectors and expeditions251 days in the field46,695 km between stops514 photographed specimens
9 journeys match
Johnson Randall
12 islands · Jun – Sep 1973
Johnson Randall across 12 islands, June – September 1973770 specimens · 45 stops · 83 days · 15,630 km
J.M. Powell
6 islands · Apr – Jul 1972
J.M. Powell across 6 islands, April – July 1972377 specimens · 34 stops · 109 days · 11,538 km
D.E. Yen
6 islands of the Solomon Islands · Feb – May 1971
D.E. Yen across 6 islands of the Solomon Islands, February – May 1971161 specimens · 31 stops · 107 days · 1,964 km
Gerald R. Allen
7 islands · Jul – Aug 1973
Gerald R. Allen across 7 islands, July – August 1973241 specimens · 22 stops · 48 days · 2,361 km
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
13 islands · Dec 1976 – Apr 1977
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 13 islands, December 1976 – April 197788 specimens · 27 stops · 104 days · 15,072 km
B. Goldman
5 islands of the Solomon Islands · Jun – Aug 1973
B. Goldman across 5 islands of the Solomon Islands, June – August 1973145 specimens · 15 stops · 40 days · 87 km
D.E. Yen
3 islands of the Solomon Islands · Nov – Dec 1971
D.E. Yen in Anuta, Nendo (Santa Cruz) and Guadalcanal, November – December 197177 specimens · 8 stops · 37 days
T.P. Bayliss-Smith
3 islands of the Solomon Islands · Jan – May 1971
T.P. Bayliss-Smith in Ontong Java Atoll, Sikaiana and Onton Java Atoll, January – May 197142 specimens · 18 stops · 123 days
L. Goldman
4 islands of the Solomon Islands · 18–31 Jul 1973
L. Goldman across 4 islands of the Solomon Islands, 18–31 July 197380 specimens · 7 stops · 14 days · 43 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.