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. 51 journeys so far, 1980 to 1988, 8,366 specimens between them.
28 collectors and expeditions693 days in the field140,699 km between stops29 photographed specimens
51 journeys match
Alfredo Cea Egaña
Easter Island · 10–15 Feb 1985
Alfredo Cea Egaña in Easter Island, 10–15 February 198564 specimens · 2 stops · 6 days
Lisa Boucher
Enewetak Atoll · Sep – Oct 1982
Lisa Boucher in Enewetak Atoll, September – October 198264 specimens · 2 stops · 5 days
Local fishermen
Kerala State and India · 1–15 Feb 1980
Local fishermen in Kerala State and India, 1–15 February 198045 specimens · 2 stops · 15 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.