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. 16 journeys so far, 1970 to 1980, 6,167 specimens between them.
14 collectors and expeditions551 days in the field119,330 km between stops687 photographed specimens
16 journeys match
Johnson Randall
27 islands · Dec 1970 – May 1971
Johnson Randall across 27 islands, December 1970 – May 19712,367 specimens · 98 stops · 175 days · 9,120 km
Dean B. Cannoy
23 islands · Dec 1970 – May 1971
Dean B. Cannoy across 23 islands, December 1970 – May 19711,582 specimens · 82 stops · 159 days · 7,718 km
Betsy H. Gagne
11 islands · Jun – Sep 1977
Betsy H. Gagne across 11 islands, June – September 1977480 specimens · 22 stops · 84 days · 12,628 km
Rhett M. McNair
15 islands of French Polynesia · Dec 1970 – May 1971
Rhett M. McNair across 15 islands of French Polynesia, December 1970 – May 1971421 specimens · 26 stops · 153 days · 4,423 km
M.-H Sachet
8 islands of French Polynesia · Nov 1974 – Feb 1975
M.-H Sachet across 8 islands of French Polynesia, November 1974 – February 1975286 specimens · 34 stops · 108 days · 4,737 km
W. Teraoka
4 islands · Apr 1979 – Mar 1980
W. Teraoka across 4 islands, April 1979 – March 1980183 specimens · 58 stops · 348 days · 23,334 km
B.G. Decker
8 islands · Sep – Nov 1974
B.G. Decker across 8 islands, September – November 1974227 specimens · 24 stops · 63 days · 5,150 km
J. Raynal
7 islands · Jun – Aug 1973
J. Raynal across 7 islands, June – August 1973117 specimens · 29 stops · 79 days · 4,474 km
J. Raynal
9 islands · Jun – Oct 1971
J. Raynal across 9 islands, June – October 1971106 specimens · 42 stops · 103 days · 21,113 km
G.W. Gillett
4 islands · Jul – Sep 1970
G.W. Gillett across 4 islands, July – September 197094 specimens · 13 stops · 74 days · 5,743 km
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
7 islands · Nov 1977 – Feb 1978
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 7 islands, November 1977 – February 197861 specimens · 19 stops · 80 days · 5,557 km
N. Hallé
3 islands of French Polynesia · May – Jun 1979
N. Hallé in Tubuai, Tahiti and Marotiri, May – June 197950 specimens · 16 stops · 41 days
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Steven L. Montgomery
7 islands of French Polynesia · Jul – Sep 1977
Steven L. Montgomery across 7 islands of French Polynesia, July – September 197745 specimens · 12 stops · 71 days · 4,361 km
H. Kennedy
3 islands · Aug – Sep 1979
H. Kennedy in Tahiti, Hawaiʻi Island and Upolu, August – September 197942 specimens · 11 stops · 33 days · 6,642 km
M.-H Sachet
4 islands · Jun – Jul 1976
M.-H Sachet across 4 islands, June – July 197646 specimens · 8 stops · 28 days · 2,621 km
A. Haywood
4 islands · Apr – May 1971
A. Haywood across 4 islands, April – May 197160 specimens · 5 stops · 32 days · 1,709 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.