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. 3 journeys so far, 1945 to 1946, 346 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions75 days in the field97,575 km between stops305 photographed specimens
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Journeys with photographed specimens3 journeys match
J.T. Conover
3 islands · May – Dec 1945
J.T. Conover in Okinawa, Luzon and Saipan, May – December 1945141 specimens · 32 stops · 207 days · 4,946 km
J.T. Conover
Okinawa · Feb – Mar 1946
J.T. Conover in Okinawa, February – March 1946138 specimens · 13 stops · 24 days
J.T. Conover
3 islands · Jan – Apr 1945
J.T. Conover in Guam, Okinawa and Funafuti, January – April 194567 specimens · 28 stops · 89 days · 92,629 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.