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. 8 journeys so far, 1924 to 2004, 2,522 specimens between them.
7 collectors and expeditions181 days in the field87,604 km between stops1,415 photographed specimens
8 journeys match
C.R. Long
29 islands · Aug – Nov 1964
C.R. Long across 29 islands, August – November 1964467 specimens · 49 stops · 103 days · 19,051 km
Ted E. should Be D. Dranga
8 islands of the United States · Jul – Aug 1924
Ted E. should Be D. Dranga across 8 islands of the United States, July – August 1924504 specimens · 13 stops · 52 days · 6,915 km
C.R. Long
24 islands · Apr – Jul 1964
C.R. Long across 24 islands, April – July 1964264 specimens · 39 stops · 91 days · 15,404 km
K.N. Page
10 islands · Jan – Feb 2004
K.N. Page across 10 islands, January – February 2004679 specimens · 8 stops · 45 days · 4,821 km
P.S. Vroom
7 islands · Jan – Feb 2004
P.S. Vroom across 7 islands, January – February 2004336 specimens · 6 stops · 29 days · 7,651 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
14 islands · Jul – Sep 1938
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. across 14 islands, July – September 1938131 specimens · 17 stops · 49 days · 11,700 km
Erling Christophersen
8 islands · Jun – Sep 1924
Erling Christophersen across 8 islands, June – September 192481 specimens · 18 stops · 111 days · 15,205 km
Donald Mitchell
5 islands of the United States · 1–28 Jun 1935
Donald Mitchell across 5 islands of the United States, 1–28 June 193560 specimens · 5 stops · 28 days · 6,857 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.