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. 5 journeys so far, 1982 to 1988, 460 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions48 days in the field7,501 km between stops137 photographed specimens
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Journeys with photographed specimens5 journeys match
Jacques Florence
4 islands of French Polynesia · Apr – May 1982
Jacques Florence across 4 islands of French Polynesia, April – May 1982122 specimens · 6 stops · 54 days · 3,245 km
Jacques Florence
Raiatea and Nuku Hiva · Jun – Jul 1982
Jacques Florence in Raiatea and Nuku Hiva, June – July 1982127 specimens · 5 stops · 13 days · 1,520 km
Jacques Florence
Tahaa and Raiatea · 13–22 Sep 1983
Jacques Florence in Tahaa and Raiatea, 13–22 September 1983103 specimens · 4 stops · 10 days · 30 km
Jacques Florence
Raiatea and Nuku Hiva · Aug – Sep 1982
Jacques Florence in Raiatea and Nuku Hiva, August – September 198265 specimens · 4 stops · 20 days · 1,513 km
Jacques Florence
3 islands of French Polynesia · Apr – May 1988
Jacques Florence in Rurutu, Raiatea and Hao Atoll, April – May 198843 specimens · 2 stops · 21 days · 1,193 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.