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. 2 journeys so far, 1985 to 1986, 202 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions23 days in the field
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Journeys with photographed specimens2 journeys match
Johnson Randall
Easter Island and Bonaire · 4–22 Feb 1985
Johnson Randall in Easter Island and Bonaire, 4–22 February 1985112 specimens · 10 stops · 19 days
Johnson Randall
Easter Island and Tahiti · Jan – Feb 1986
Johnson Randall in Easter Island and Tahiti, January – February 198690 specimens · 12 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.