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, 1932 to 1968, 895 specimens between them.
2 collectors and expeditions68 days in the field18,496 km between stops874 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
22 islands · Jun – Dec 1968
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 22 islands, June – December 1968642 specimens · 45 stops · 180 days · 13,960 km
Edwin G. Burrows
4 islands · Apr – Jun 1932
Edwin G. Burrows across 4 islands, April – June 1932190 specimens · 4 stops · 44 days · 4,532 km
Edwin G. Burrows
'Uvea Island · Oct – Nov 1932
Edwin G. Burrows in 'Uvea Island, October – November 193263 specimens · 4 stops · 31 days · 4 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.