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. 5 journeys so far, 1970 to 1971, 4,977 specimens between them.
5 collectors and expeditions277 days in the field26,184 km between stops
5 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
Jim Haywood
19 islands of French Polynesia · Dec 1970 – May 1971
Jim Haywood across 19 islands of French Polynesia, December 1970 – May 1971499 specimens · 36 stops · 162 days · 4,655 km
James Bryant
15 islands · Dec 1970 – May 1971
James Bryant across 15 islands, December 1970 – May 1971440 specimens · 31 stops · 149 days · 4,691 km
G.S. Haywood
3 islands · Apr – May 1971
G.S. Haywood in Uapou, Hivaoa and Nukuhiva, April – May 197189 specimens · 6 stops · 21 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.