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. 3 journeys so far, 1985 to 1985, 503 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions25 days in the field
3 journeys match
Johnson Randall
8 islands of Iceland · Aug – Sep 1985
Johnson Randall across 8 islands of Iceland, August – September 1985229 specimens · 13 stops · 37 days
Linda J. McCarthy
3 islands of Iceland · Sep – Oct 1985
Linda J. McCarthy in Jana Island, Half Moon Bay and Manifa, September – October 1985135 specimens · 5 stops · 33 days
Brock E. Stanaland
3 islands of Iceland · 4–17 Sep 1985
Brock E. Stanaland in Jana Island, Half Moon Bay and Persian Gulf, 4–17 September 1985139 specimens · 5 stops · 14 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.