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. 55 journeys so far, 1910 to 1920, 15,653 specimens between them.
16 collectors and expeditions936 days in the field84,399 km between stops12,527 photographed specimens
55 journeys match
Charles N. Forbes
Oʻahu · 1–17 Jul 1914
Charles N. Forbes in Oʻahu, 1–17 July 191478 specimens · 2 stops · 17 days · 20 km
F. Girdler
Oʻahu · Mar – Apr 1917
F. Girdler in Oʻahu, March – April 191762 specimens · 2 stops · 21 days · 141 km
A. Gouveia A. Gouveia A. Gouveia v A. Gouveia
Oʻahu · May – Jun 1916
A. Gouveia A. Gouveia A. Gouveia v A. Gouveia in Oʻahu, May – June 191656 specimens · 2 stops · 36 days · 129 km
John Colburn Bridwell
Oʻahu · Apr – Jun 1919
John Colburn Bridwell in Oʻahu, April – June 191940 specimens · 10 stops · 78 days
Otto Herman Swezey
Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island · May – Jun 1919
Otto Herman Swezey in Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island, May – June 191953 specimens · 6 stops · 31 days · 232 km
Charles N. Forbes
Oʻahu · Aug – Sep 1915
Charles N. Forbes in Oʻahu, August – September 191566 specimens · 2 stops · 16 days
Ben Olivera
Oʻahu · May – Jun 1917
Ben Olivera in Oʻahu, May – June 191743 specimens · 2 stops · 19 days · 157 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.