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. 8 journeys so far, 1970 to 1971, 5,551 specimens between them.

8 collectors and expeditions336 days in the field36,742 km between stops8 photographed specimens

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8 journeys match

Johnson Randall

27 islands · Dec 1970 – May 1971

2,367 specimens · 98 stops · 175 days · 9,120 km

Dean B. Cannoy

23 islands · Dec 1970 – May 1971

1,582 specimens · 82 stops · 159 days · 7,718 km

Jim Haywood

19 islands of French Polynesia · Dec 1970 – May 1971

499 specimens · 36 stops · 162 days · 4,655 km

James Bryant

15 islands · Dec 1970 – May 1971

440 specimens · 31 stops · 149 days · 4,691 km

Rhett M. McNair

15 islands of French Polynesia · Dec 1970 – May 1971

421 specimens · 26 stops · 153 days · 4,423 km

Dennis M. Devaney

8 islands · Feb – Mar 1971

90 specimens · 13 stops · 41 days · 1,684 km

Akihiko Sinoto

5 islands · Jan – Mar 1971

111 specimens · 10 stops · 32 days · 1,942 km

G.S. Haywood

7 islands · Dec 1970 – Feb 1971

41 specimens · 14 stops · 81 days · 2,509 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.