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. 16 journeys so far, 1903 to 2003, 4,201 specimens between them.
12 collectors and expeditions487 days in the field169,468 km between stops2,015 photographed specimens
16 journeys match
Albert C. Smith
16 islands · Oct 1933 – Jun 1934
Albert C. Smith across 16 islands, October 1933 – June 19342,049 specimens · 73 stops · 248 days · 76,386 km
Benjamin C. Stone
20 islands · Sep 1957 – Feb 1958
Benjamin C. Stone across 20 islands, September 1957 – February 1958507 specimens · 64 stops · 154 days · 21,480 km
Grady L. Webster
6 islands · Aug – Dec 1973
Grady L. Webster across 6 islands, August – December 1973137 specimens · 44 stops · 125 days · 9,925 km
Judson Linsley Gressitt
6 islands · Aug – Dec 1957
Judson Linsley Gressitt across 6 islands, August – December 1957131 specimens · 30 stops · 113 days · 9,370 km
S. Frank Kajewski
Anatom and Aneityum · Feb – Mar 1929
S. Frank Kajewski in Anatom and Aneityum, February – March 1929200 specimens · 9 stops · 46 days
Alvin Seale
5 islands · May – Jun 1903
Alvin Seale across 5 islands, May – June 1903311 specimens · 7 stops · 32 days · 1,333 km
Patrick V. Kirch
3 islands · Jun – Jul 1974
Patrick V. Kirch in Futuna Island, Niuatoputapu Island and Nuku Hiva, June – July 1974162 specimens · 15 stops · 44 days
J. Raynal
9 islands · Jun – Oct 1971
J. Raynal across 9 islands, June – October 1971106 specimens · 42 stops · 103 days · 21,113 km
D. Mueller-Dombois
12 islands · Oct – Dec 1981
D. Mueller-Dombois across 12 islands, October – December 1981139 specimens · 18 stops · 53 days · 3,711 km
S. Frank Kajewski
3 islands of Vanuatu · Apr – Jun 1928
S. Frank Kajewski in Erromango, Efate and Erromanga, April – June 1928110 specimens · 11 stops · 57 days
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
13 islands · Dec 1976 – Apr 1977
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 13 islands, December 1976 – April 197788 specimens · 27 stops · 104 days · 15,072 km
A.W.C.T. Herre
10 islands · Mar – Jun 1929
A.W.C.T. Herre across 10 islands, March – June 192946 specimens · 15 stops · 93 days · 5,808 km
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
6 islands · Nov 1978 – Jan 1979
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 6 islands, November 1978 – January 197957 specimens · 17 stops · 90 days · 2,398 km
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
5 islands · Jan – Apr 1986
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 5 islands, January – April 198662 specimens · 10 stops · 77 days · 2,638 km
W.R. Sykes
Tanna and Efate · 12–22 Jul 2003
W.R. Sykes in Tanna and Efate, 12–22 July 200349 specimens · 10 stops · 11 days · 234 km
S. Frank Kajewski
Vanua Lava · 5–18 Jul 1928
S. Frank Kajewski in Vanua Lava, 5–18 July 192847 specimens · 4 stops · 14 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.