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, 1920 to 1929, 485 specimens between them.
2 collectors and expeditions62 days in the field14,306 km between stops385 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
R. Kanehira
18 islands · Jun – Aug 1929
R. Kanehira across 18 islands, June – August 1929195 specimens · 28 stops · 90 days · 12,115 km
Henry E. Crampton
7 islands · Jun – Jul 1928
Henry E. Crampton across 7 islands, June – July 1928198 specimens · 8 stops · 18 days · 1,618 km
Henry E. Crampton
Saipan · Jun – Sep 1920
Henry E. Crampton in Saipan, June – September 192092 specimens · 9 stops · 64 days · 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.