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. 10 journeys so far, 1946 to 1988, 4,594 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions335 days in the field217,455 km between stops2,067 photographed specimens
10 journeys match
F. Raymond Fosberg
56 islands · Apr – Nov 1946
F. Raymond Fosberg across 56 islands, April – November 19462,439 specimens · 102 stops · 209 days · 105,682 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
21 islands · Nov 1951 – Apr 1952
F. Raymond Fosberg across 21 islands, November 1951 – April 1952672 specimens · 57 stops · 145 days · 13,644 km
Harold St.John
13 islands · Jul – Nov 1946
Harold St.John across 13 islands, July – November 1946590 specimens · 27 stops · 120 days · 9,900 km
Benjamin C. Stone
13 islands · Nov 1955 – Feb 1956
Benjamin C. Stone across 13 islands, November 1955 – February 1956233 specimens · 36 stops · 93 days · 11,844 km
Derral R. Herbst
5 islands · Feb – Apr 1988
Derral R. Herbst across 5 islands, February – April 1988201 specimens · 16 stops · 49 days · 7,903 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
8 islands · Sep – Oct 1960
F. Raymond Fosberg across 8 islands, September – October 1960112 specimens · 22 stops · 56 days · 12,270 km
Harold St.John
11 islands · Jul – Aug 1949
Harold St.John across 11 islands, July – August 1949180 specimens · 15 stops · 30 days · 6,890 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
4 islands · Dec 1957 – Jan 1958
F. Raymond Fosberg across 4 islands, December 1957 – January 195861 specimens · 17 stops · 32 days · 36,429 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
3 islands · Oct – Nov 1985
F. Raymond Fosberg in Bikini Atoll, Oʻahu and Kwajalein Atoll, October – November 198562 specimens · 13 stops · 24 days · 4,617 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
Kwajalein Atoll and Hawaiʻi Island · Jul – Sep 1966
F. Raymond Fosberg in Kwajalein Atoll and Hawaiʻi Island, July – September 196644 specimens · 8 stops · 53 days · 8,276 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.