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, 1930 to 1934, 39,811 specimens between them.
10 collectors and expeditions743 days in the field100,342 km between stops38,273 photographed specimens
10 journeys match
Mangarevan Expedition
29 islands · May – Nov 1934
Mangarevan Expedition, May – November 193415,215 specimens · 33 stops · 173 days · 12,849 km
Donald Anderson
34 islands · Apr – Oct 1934
Donald Anderson across 34 islands, April – October 19348,872 specimens · 35 stops · 202 days · 16,221 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
Clarence H. Cooke Jr.
26 islands · Apr – Oct 1934
Clarence H. Cooke Jr. across 26 islands, April – October 19343,369 specimens · 39 stops · 184 days · 14,736 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
32 islands · Apr – Oct 1934
F. Raymond Fosberg across 32 islands, April – October 19342,503 specimens · 85 stops · 201 days · 23,387 km
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
21 islands · Feb – Oct 1934
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman across 21 islands, February – October 19341,714 specimens · 56 stops · 248 days · 12,587 km
Martin L. Grant
8 islands of French Polynesia · Nov 1930 – Feb 1931
Martin L. Grant across 8 islands of French Polynesia, November 1930 – February 1931822 specimens · 31 stops · 90 days · 1,081 km
Fosberg F. Raymond
14 islands · May – Oct 1934
Fosberg F. Raymond across 14 islands, May – October 1934693 specimens · 14 stops · 144 days · 6,414 km
Gessler
6 islands · Sep – Oct 1934
Gessler across 6 islands, September – October 19341,072 specimens · 6 stops · 30 days · 2,403 km
St. John Harold
12 islands · May – Oct 1934
St. John Harold across 12 islands, May – October 1934636 specimens · 13 stops · 142 days · 4,628 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.