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. 6 journeys so far, 1956 to 2006, 1,627 specimens between them.
6 collectors and expeditions101 days in the field53,832 km between stops500 photographed specimens
6 journeys match
A.D. Tribollet
3 islands · Mar – Apr 2006
A.D. Tribollet in Kingman Reef, Jarvis Island and Rose Atoll, March – April 2006546 specimens · 4 stops · 31 days · 5,032 km
P.S. Vroom
7 islands · Jan – Mar 2002
P.S. Vroom across 7 islands, January – March 2002348 specimens · 9 stops · 50 days · 6,339 km
K.J. Geisler
4 islands · 7–23 Feb 2001
K.J. Geisler across 4 islands, 7–23 February 2001233 specimens · 5 stops · 17 days · 2,731 km
K.N. Page
Kingman Reef and Jarvis Island · Mar – Apr 2004
K.N. Page in Kingman Reef and Jarvis Island, March – April 2004374 specimens · 2 stops · 10 days · 798 km
station
17 islands · Aug – Dec 1956
station, August – December 195676 specimens · 33 stops · 130 days · 25,742 km
V Hugh M. Smith cruise 35
12 islands · Aug – Sep 1956
V Hugh M. Smith cruise 35, August – September 195650 specimens · 25 stops · 60 days · 13,190 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.