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. 3 journeys so far, 1928 to 1981, 355 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions85 days in the field24,824 km between stops83 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
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
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.