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. 4 journeys so far, 1984 to 1987, 1,510 specimens between them.
2 collectors and expeditions140 days in the field10,547 km between stops
4 journeys match
Johnson Randall
20 islands · Aug – Nov 1987
Johnson Randall across 20 islands, August – November 1987700 specimens · 51 stops · 87 days · 9,036 km
Johnson Randall
4 islands · Jan – Mar 1984
Johnson Randall across 4 islands, January – March 1984376 specimens · 20 stops · 38 days
F.G. Wörner
Indonesia and Lombok · Jan – Feb 1984
F.G. Wörner in Indonesia and Lombok, January – February 1984268 specimens · 10 stops · 28 days
Johnson Randall
20 islands of Indonesia · Sep – Nov 1986
Johnson Randall across 20 islands of Indonesia, September – November 1986166 specimens · 27 stops · 52 days · 1,511 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.