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. 6 journeys so far, 1970 to 1977, 812 specimens between them.
5 collectors and expeditions99 days in the field14,152 km between stops55 photographed specimens
6 journeys match
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
J.J. Wood
6 islands of Papua New Guinea · Sep – Dec 1975
J.J. Wood across 6 islands of Papua New Guinea, September – December 197567 specimens · 13 stops · 71 days · 5,279 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
G.S. Haywood
7 islands · Dec 1970 – Feb 1971
G.S. Haywood across 7 islands, December 1970 – February 197141 specimens · 14 stops · 81 days · 2,509 km
A. Haywood
4 islands · Apr – May 1971
A. Haywood across 4 islands, April – May 197160 specimens · 5 stops · 32 days · 1,709 km
D.J. Woodland
La Digue · 1–5 Jun 1977
D.J. Woodland in La Digue, 1–5 June 197756 specimens · 3 stops · 5 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.