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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. 13 journeys so far, 1934 to 1962, 3,698 specimens between them.

1 collectors and expeditions221 days in the field46,240 km between stops3,475 photographed specimens

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo

Oʻahu and Sulu Island · Nov 1952 – Jun 1953

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Oʻahu and Sulu Island, November 1952 – June 1953

749 specimens · 29 stops · 217 days · 1,689 km

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo

9 islands · May – Jul 1952

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 9 islands, May – July 1952

877 specimens · 23 stops · 74 days · 18,027 km

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo

8 islands · Jul – Oct 1934

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 8 islands, July – October 1934

620 specimens · 10 stops · 91 days · 1,948 km

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo

Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island · Apr – Sep 1951

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island, April – September 1951

330 specimens · 27 stops · 127 days · 2,315 km

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo

3 islands · Jul – Aug 1946

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Chichi-Jima, July – August 1946

326 specimens · 23 stops · 54 days · 465 km

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo

Lānaʻi and Oʻahu · Feb – Apr 1961

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Lānaʻi and Oʻahu, February – April 1961

141 specimens · 11 stops · 50 days · 429 km

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo

Oʻahu · Mar – Apr 1948

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Oʻahu, March – April 1948

164 specimens · 7 stops · 37 days · 934 km

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo

Oʻahu · Mar – Jun 1946

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Oʻahu, March – June 1946

124 specimens · 6 stops · 65 days · 506 km

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo

Oʻahu and Kauaʻi · Jan – Mar 1947

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Oʻahu and Kauaʻi, January – March 1947

92 specimens · 7 stops · 70 days · 539 km

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo

4 islands · May – Aug 1962

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 4 islands, May – August 1962

76 specimens · 12 stops · 89 days · 12,838 km

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo

Oʻahu · Oct – Dec 1960

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Oʻahu, October – December 1960

86 specimens · 6 stops · 55 days · 298 km

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo

Oʻahu · Nov – Dec 1951

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Oʻahu, November – December 1951

70 specimens · 4 stops · 17 days · 129 km

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo

Oʻahu and Aguijan · Jan – Feb 1952

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Oʻahu and Aguijan, January – February 1952

43 specimens · 5 stops · 34 days · 6,123 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.