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, 1966 to 1968, 1,936 specimens between them.
2 collectors and expeditions151 days in the field135,090 km between stops2 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
Johnson Randall
25 islands · Mar – Dec 1968
Johnson Randall across 25 islands, March – December 19681,676 specimens · 99 stops · 261 days · 106,577 km
Johnson Randall
14 islands · Aug – Nov 1966
Johnson Randall across 14 islands, August – November 1966116 specimens · 21 stops · 89 days · 28,513 km
E.S. Helfman
7 islands · May – Jun 1968
E.S. Helfman across 7 islands, May – June 1968144 specimens · 9 stops · 25 days
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.