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. 2 journeys so far, 1925 to 1925, 521 specimens between them.
2 collectors and expeditions41 days in the field546 km between stops513 photographed specimens
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Journeys with photographed specimens2 journeys match
Ted E. should Be D. Dranga
3 islands · May – Jul 1925
Ted E. should Be D. Dranga in Maui, Kahoʻolawe and Pearl and Hermes Atoll, May – July 1925281 specimens · 9 stops · 53 days · 270 km
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston
3 islands · May – Jul 1925
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston in Maui, Kahoʻolawe and Pearl and Hermes Atoll, May – July 1925240 specimens · 9 stops · 53 days · 276 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.