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. 33 journeys so far, 1930 to 1939, 7,551 specimens between them.
19 collectors and expeditions630 days in the field71,836 km between stops6,060 photographed specimens
33 journeys match
Edward Yataro Hosaka
3 islands of the United States · 4–26 Apr 1939
Edward Yataro Hosaka in Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Lānaʻi, 4–26 April 193969 specimens · 14 stops · 23 days · 337 km
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C.E. Hartt
Maui and Hawaiʻi Island · 6–18 Aug 1933
C.E. Hartt in Maui and Hawaiʻi Island, 6–18 August 193393 specimens · 6 stops · 13 days · 136 km
Edward Yataro Hosaka
5 islands of the United States · Jul – Aug 1931
Edward Yataro Hosaka across 5 islands of the United States, July – August 193182 specimens · 6 stops · 24 days · 1,149 km
F. Salucop
Maui · Jul – Aug 1939
F. Salucop in Maui, July – August 193958 specimens · 10 stops · 36 days · 189 km
E.S.C. Handy
4 islands of the United States · Jul – Sep 1931
E.S.C. Handy across 4 islands of the United States, July – September 193171 specimens · 5 stops · 43 days · 1,582 km
E. Ordonez
Maui · Jul – Aug 1939
E. Ordonez in Maui, July – August 193942 specimens · 9 stops · 34 days · 195 km
E.S.C. Handy
Maui · Jun – Jul 1933
E.S.C. Handy in Maui, June – July 193341 specimens · 8 stops · 45 days · 136 km
Gunder E. Olson
Maui · Oct – Dec 1936
Gunder E. Olson in Maui, October – December 193654 specimens · 3 stops · 54 days · 37 km
E.S.C. Handy
Maui and Molokaʻi · 4–18 Jun 1931
E.S.C. Handy in Maui and Molokaʻi, 4–18 June 193150 specimens · 2 stops · 15 days · 108 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.