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. 19 journeys so far, 1960 to 1969, 4,046 specimens between them.
16 collectors and expeditions537 days in the field295,324 km between stops2,622 photographed specimens
19 journeys match
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
22 islands · Jun – Dec 1968
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 22 islands, June – December 1968642 specimens · 45 stops · 180 days · 13,960 km
Grady L. Webster
10 islands · Jun – Sep 1968
Grady L. Webster across 10 islands, June – September 1968510 specimens · 60 stops · 111 days · 38,525 km
W.R. Sykes
4 islands · Sep – Dec 1965
W.R. Sykes across 4 islands, September – December 1965336 specimens · 55 stops · 98 days · 5,255 km
Richard Hildreth
6 islands · Jul – Sep 1968
Richard Hildreth across 6 islands, July – September 1968322 specimens · 44 stops · 75 days · 8,666 km
Robert H. Snider
14 islands · Sep 1964 – Jan 1965
Robert H. Snider across 14 islands, September 1964 – January 1965519 specimens · 28 stops · 139 days · 19,940 km
Otto Degener
6 islands · Dec 1968 – Feb 1969
Otto Degener across 6 islands, December 1968 – February 1969258 specimens · 29 stops · 52 days · 41,268 km
Isa Degener
6 islands · Dec 1968 – Feb 1969
Isa Degener across 6 islands, December 1968 – February 1969230 specimens · 30 stops · 52 days · 41,268 km
H.U. Stauffer
10 islands · Dec 1963 – Apr 1964
H.U. Stauffer across 10 islands, December 1963 – April 1964165 specimens · 43 stops · 140 days · 17,939 km
Otto Degener
4 islands · Nov – Dec 1960
Otto Degener across 4 islands, November – December 1960150 specimens · 23 stops · 43 days · 12,274 km
P.B. Tomlinson
3 islands of Fiji · Apr – May 1969
P.B. Tomlinson in Viti Levu, Vanua Levu and Taveuni, April – May 1969232 specimens · 13 stops · 16 days · 14,669 km
M. Hotta
9 islands · Jul – Oct 1960
M. Hotta across 9 islands, July – October 1960126 specimens · 38 stops · 113 days · 3,718 km
Isa Degener
4 islands · Nov – Dec 1960
Isa Degener across 4 islands, November – December 1960102 specimens · 20 stops · 40 days · 12,274 km
T.K. Newell
9 islands · Aug – Nov 1966
T.K. Newell across 9 islands, August – November 1966116 specimens · 27 stops · 91 days · 12,029 km
M.A. Weiner
4 islands · Sep – Oct 1969
M.A. Weiner across 4 islands, September – October 1969108 specimens · 12 stops · 28 days
Donald Anderson
6 islands · Aug – Nov 1969
Donald Anderson across 6 islands, August – November 196942 specimens · 15 stops · 94 days · 36,629 km
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
7 islands · Jan – Mar 1960
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 7 islands, January – March 196057 specimens · 7 stops · 58 days · 16,910 km
Benjamin C. Stone
3 islands · Apr – May 1969
Benjamin C. Stone in Kedah, Viti Levu and Malaya, April – May 196949 specimens · 6 stops · 20 days
S. Pillay
Viti Levu · Sep – Dec 1960
S. Pillay in Viti Levu, September – December 196042 specimens · 12 stops · 81 days
S. Pillay
Viti Levu and Naitasiri · Jun – Jul 1960
S. Pillay in Viti Levu and Naitasiri, June – July 196040 specimens · 8 stops · 49 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.