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. 5 journeys so far, 1967 to 1979, 406 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions52 days in the field8,799 km between stops201 photographed specimens
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Journeys with photographed specimens5 journeys match
van Royen
3 islands · Jun – Sep 1967
van Royen in Oʻahu, Kauaʻi and Moorea, June – September 1967147 specimens · 11 stops · 80 days · 8,799 km
van Royen
the United States · Jul – Aug 1973
van Royen in the United States, July – August 197397 specimens · 17 stops · 27 days
van Royen
Kauaʻi · Aug – Sep 1977
van Royen in Kauaʻi, August – September 197766 specimens · 4 stops · 25 days
van Royen
the United States · 1–28 Aug 1969
van Royen in the United States, 1–28 August 196948 specimens · 11 stops · 28 days
van Royen
3 countries · Jun – Aug 1979
van Royen in the Netherlands, the United States and Australia, June – August 197948 specimens · 8 stops · 44 days
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.