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, 1952 to 1952, 1,010 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions47 days in the field18,244 km between stops839 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
9 islands · May – Jul 1952
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 9 islands, May – July 1952877 specimens · 23 stops · 74 days · 18,027 km
Various
3 islands · May – Jun 1952
Various in Aguijan, Rota and Tinian, May – June 195268 specimens · 2 stops · 36 days · 89 km
Ignacia Benevente
Rota and Saipan · 20–26 Jun 1952
Ignacia Benevente in Rota and Saipan, 20–26 June 195265 specimens · 2 stops · 7 days · 128 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.