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. 9 journeys so far, 1934 to 1939, 17,394 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions343 days in the field45,669 km between stops17,388 photographed specimens
9 journeys match
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
22 islands of Palau · Dec 1935 – Jun 1936
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 22 islands of Palau, December 1935 – June 19366,659 specimens · 16 stops · 189 days · 15,221 km
Yoshio Kondo
16 islands · May – Oct 1934
Yoshio Kondo across 16 islands, May – October 19344,915 specimens · 25 stops · 146 days · 6,036 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
12 islands of Fiji · Jun – Oct 1938
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 12 islands of Fiji, June – October 19382,255 specimens · 28 stops · 115 days · 15,460 km
Kiyoko Kondo
13 islands · Dec 1935 – May 1936
Kiyoko Kondo across 13 islands, December 1935 – May 19362,220 specimens · 9 stops · 178 days · 6,033 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
8 islands · Jul – Oct 1934
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 8 islands, July – October 1934620 specimens · 10 stops · 91 days · 1,948 km
Kondo
4 islands · Sep – Oct 1934
Kondo across 4 islands, September – October 1934488 specimens · 5 stops · 18 days · 221 km
Kondo
3 islands · Jul – Aug 1934
Kondo in Tupuai, Rapa and Raivavae, July – August 1934115 specimens · 3 stops · 51 days · 721 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
Oʻahu · Jul – Aug 1939
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Oʻahu, July – August 193978 specimens · 2 stops · 27 days · 25 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
Mangareva · May – Jun 1934
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Mangareva, May – June 193444 specimens · 2 stops · 12 days · 4 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.