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. 7 journeys so far, 1970 to 1978, 3,752 specimens between them.
5 collectors and expeditions342 days in the field56,149 km between stops104 photographed specimens
7 journeys match
Johnson Randall
35 islands · Feb – Sep 1977
Johnson Randall across 35 islands, February – September 19771,178 specimens · 101 stops · 216 days · 16,972 km
Johnson Randall
12 islands · Jun – Sep 1978
Johnson Randall across 12 islands, June – September 1978840 specimens · 52 stops · 92 days · 8,104 km
G.W. Tribble
13 islands · Jun – Sep 1978
G.W. Tribble across 13 islands, June – September 1978673 specimens · 44 stops · 92 days · 7,509 km
R.P.H. Rutherford
11 islands · Jun – Sep 1978
R.P.H. Rutherford across 11 islands, June – September 1978489 specimens · 27 stops · 91 days · 6,285 km
Johnson Randall
10 islands · May – Jul 1975
Johnson Randall across 10 islands, May – July 1975457 specimens · 30 stops · 79 days · 14,699 km
G.A. Santos
8 islands of the Philippines · Jul – Sep 1971
G.A. Santos across 8 islands of the Philippines, July – September 197159 specimens · 14 stops · 71 days · 2,580 km
P. McKown
3 islands · 1–6 Feb 1970
P. McKown in New Caledonia, Isle Of Pines and Cebu, 1–6 February 197056 specimens · 4 stops · 6 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.