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. 4 journeys so far, 1974 to 1978, 620 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions68 days in the field17,402 km between stops
4 journeys match
Johnson Randall
10 islands · May – Jul 1975
Johnson Randall across 10 islands, May – July 1975457 specimens · 30 stops · 79 days · 14,699 km
Johnson Randall
Enewetak Atoll and Kwajalein Atoll · Nov – Dec 1974
Johnson Randall in Enewetak Atoll and Kwajalein Atoll, November – December 197462 specimens · 9 stops · 24 days · 901 km
Johnson Randall
Enewetak Atoll and Kwajalein Atoll · Apr – May 1978
Johnson Randall in Enewetak Atoll and Kwajalein Atoll, April – May 197855 specimens · 8 stops · 17 days · 901 km
Johnson Randall
Kwajalein Atoll and Enewetak Atoll · Mar – Apr 1976
Johnson Randall in Kwajalein Atoll and Enewetak Atoll, March – April 197646 specimens · 5 stops · 13 days · 901 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.