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. 10 journeys so far, 1923 to 1927, 2,217 specimens between them.
6 collectors and expeditions107 days in the field26,880 km between stops2,034 photographed specimens
10 journeys match
Ditlev Due Thaanum
10 islands of the United States · May – Aug 1923
Ditlev Due Thaanum across 10 islands of the United States, May – August 1923918 specimens · 15 stops · 96 days · 11,766 km
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
Ted E. should Be D. Dranga
6 islands · 1–24 May 1923
Ted E. should Be D. Dranga across 6 islands, 1–24 May 1923157 specimens · 12 stops · 24 days · 3,034 km
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston
6 islands · 14–24 May 1923
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston across 6 islands, 14–24 May 1923135 specimens · 8 stops · 11 days · 2,027 km
Edward Leonard Caum
7 islands · 1–28 Apr 1923
Edward Leonard Caum across 7 islands, 1–28 April 192378 specimens · 10 stops · 28 days · 2,863 km
Ted E. should Be D. Dranga
3 islands · 1–6 Apr 1927
Ted E. should Be D. Dranga in Pearl and Hermes Atoll, Nihoa and Maui, 1–6 April 1927147 specimens · 2 stops · 6 days · 1,490 km
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston
Pearl and Hermes Atoll and Nihoa · 1–6 Apr 1927
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston in Pearl and Hermes Atoll and Nihoa, 1–6 April 1927102 specimens · 2 stops · 6 days · 1,490 km
Alex B. Anderson
Pearl and Hermes Atoll and Nihoa · 1–6 Apr 1927
Alex B. Anderson in Pearl and Hermes Atoll and Nihoa, 1–6 April 192799 specimens · 2 stops · 6 days · 1,490 km
Tanager Expedition
10 islands of the United States · Apr – Jun 1923
Tanager Expedition, April – June 192360 specimens · 8 stops · 62 days · 2,174 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.