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. 6 journeys so far, 1973 to 1993, 1,257 specimens between them.
2 collectors and expeditions186 days in the field3,541 km between stops323 photographed specimens
6 journeys match
W.A. Whistler
3 islands of Samoa · Jul – Dec 1973
W.A. Whistler in Upolu, Savaii and Nuutele, July – December 1973354 specimens · 49 stops · 146 days · 639 km
W.A. Whistler
11 islands · May 1976 – Jan 1977
W.A. Whistler across 11 islands, May 1976 – January 1977301 specimens · 62 stops · 237 days · 2,182 km
W.A. Whistler
8 islands · Jan – Apr 1974
W.A. Whistler across 8 islands, January – April 1974352 specimens · 31 stops · 99 days · 522 km
W.A. Whistler
5 islands · Aug – Oct 1978
W.A. Whistler across 5 islands, August – October 1978139 specimens · 24 stops · 67 days
Anthony C. Robinson
Upolu and Nuutele · Nov – Dec 1993
Anthony C. Robinson in Upolu and Nuutele, November – December 199370 specimens · 5 stops · 45 days · 118 km
W.A. Whistler
6 islands · Apr – May 1979
W.A. Whistler across 6 islands, April – May 197941 specimens · 8 stops · 11 days · 80 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.