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, 1921 to 1922, 718 specimens between them.
5 collectors and expeditions97 days in the field8,742 km between stops524 photographed specimens
6 journeys match
Stokes
Rapa · Jun – Oct 1921
Stokes in Rapa, June – October 1921174 specimens · 12 stops · 143 days · 1,215 km
Mrs. J.F.G. Stokes
Rapa · Jun – Oct 1921
Mrs. J.F.G. Stokes in Rapa, June – October 1921171 specimens · 9 stops · 143 days · 946 km
John Francis Gray Stokes
Rapa and Rapaq · Jul – Nov 1921
John Francis Gray Stokes in Rapa and Rapaq, July – November 1921149 specimens · 21 stops · 116 days
Harold St.John
Rapa · Jul – Aug 1921
Harold St.John in Rapa, July – August 1921128 specimens · 12 stops · 34 days
John Francis Gray Stokes
3 islands of French Polynesia · Mar – Apr 1922
John Francis Gray Stokes in Raivavae, Rapa and Rimatara, March – April 192250 specimens · 9 stops · 52 days · 8 km
Ernest H. Quayle
8 islands · Dec 1921 – Feb 1922
Ernest H. Quayle across 8 islands, December 1921 – February 192246 specimens · 12 stops · 57 days · 6,573 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.