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, 1913 to 1915, 739 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions25 days in the field1,759 km between stops724 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
Clarence H. Cooke Jr.
4 islands of the United States · Jan – Mar 1913
Clarence H. Cooke Jr. across 4 islands of the United States, January – March 1913422 specimens · 10 stops · 45 days · 815 km
Clarence H. Cooke Jr.
Molokaʻi · Feb – Mar 1915
Clarence H. Cooke Jr. in Molokaʻi, February – March 1915275 specimens · 4 stops · 42 days · 51 km
Clarence H. Cooke Jr.
Palmyra Atoll · 1–28 Jul 1913
Clarence H. Cooke Jr. in Palmyra Atoll, 1–28 July 191342 specimens · 2 stops · 28 days · 893 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.