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. 11 journeys so far, 2007 to 2009, 704 specimens between them.
9 collectors and expeditions111 days in the field7,001 km between stops384 photographed specimens
11 journeys match
T. Watanabe
7 islands · Jul – Aug 2009
T. Watanabe across 7 islands, July – August 2009138 specimens · 11 stops · 40 days · 1,464 km
T. Watanabe
6 islands of the Solomon Islands · Jul – Sep 2008
T. Watanabe across 6 islands of the Solomon Islands, July – September 2008128 specimens · 9 stops · 41 days · 638 km
T. Watanabe
5 islands of the Solomon Islands · Dec 2008 – Feb 2009
T. Watanabe across 5 islands of the Solomon Islands, December 2008 – February 200973 specimens · 14 stops · 45 days · 1,608 km
F. Pitisopa
3 islands of the Solomon Islands · 4–18 Oct 2008
F. Pitisopa in Santa Isabel, Choiseul and Kolombangara, 4–18 October 200847 specimens · 6 stops · 15 days · 349 km
M.F. Gardner
3 islands of the Solomon Islands · 4–18 Oct 2008
M.F. Gardner in Santa Isabel, Choiseul and Kolombangara, 4–18 October 200847 specimens · 6 stops · 15 days · 349 km
S. Herrington
3 islands of the Solomon Islands · 4–18 Oct 2008
S. Herrington in Santa Isabel, Choiseul and Kolombangara, 4–18 October 200846 specimens · 6 stops · 15 days · 349 km
K. Sugimura
6 islands of the Solomon Islands · Jul – Aug 2009
K. Sugimura across 6 islands of the Solomon Islands, July – August 200951 specimens · 8 stops · 31 days · 1,011 km
R. Olisae
3 islands of the Solomon Islands · 4–18 Oct 2008
R. Olisae in Santa Isabel, Choiseul and Kolombangara, 4–18 October 200844 specimens · 6 stops · 15 days · 349 km
P. Tofu
3 islands of the Solomon Islands · 4–18 Oct 2008
P. Tofu in Santa Isabel, Choiseul and Kolombangara, 4–18 October 200844 specimens · 6 stops · 15 days · 349 km
P. Kosui
3 islands of the Solomon Islands · 4–18 Oct 2008
P. Kosui in Santa Isabel, Choiseul and Kolombangara, 4–18 October 200844 specimens · 6 stops · 15 days · 349 km
S. Gale
Malaita and Guadalcanal · 5–11 Sep 2007
S. Gale in Malaita and Guadalcanal, 5–11 September 200742 specimens · 5 stops · 7 days · 186 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.