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. 37 journeys so far, 1990 to 1998, 3,161 specimens between them.
15 collectors and expeditions439 days in the field135,783 km between stops
37 journeys match
John L. Earle
18 islands · Sep – Dec 1993
John L. Earle across 18 islands, September – December 1993336 specimens · 27 stops · 81 days · 26,222 km
Johnson Randall
20 islands · Aug – Dec 1993
Johnson Randall across 20 islands, August – December 1993214 specimens · 31 stops · 114 days · 29,910 km
Johnson Randall
15 islands of Oman · Dec 1992 – Feb 1993
Johnson Randall across 15 islands of Oman, December 1992 – February 1993178 specimens · 21 stops · 71 days · 2,300 km
John L. Earle
7 islands · Jul – Sep 1991
John L. Earle across 7 islands, July – September 1991180 specimens · 19 stops · 78 days · 2,979 km
Johnson Randall
8 islands · Jul – Sep 1991
Johnson Randall across 8 islands, July – September 1991189 specimens · 17 stops · 61 days · 15,392 km
John L. Earle
18 islands of Indonesia · Oct – Nov 1990
John L. Earle across 18 islands of Indonesia, October – November 1990122 specimens · 13 stops · 26 days · 10,403 km
Johnson Randall
13 islands of Oman · Apr – May 1990
Johnson Randall across 13 islands of Oman, April – May 1990111 specimens · 10 stops · 21 days · 1,135 km
Johnson Randall
6 islands of Saudi Arabia · May – Jun 1992
Johnson Randall across 6 islands of Saudi Arabia, May – June 199289 specimens · 10 stops · 28 days · 84 km
Johnson Randall
9 islands · Apr – May 1997
Johnson Randall across 9 islands, April – May 199795 specimens · 8 stops · 33 days · 8,635 km
J.K.L. Mee
8 islands of Oman · Apr – May 1990
J.K.L. Mee across 8 islands of Oman, April – May 199096 specimens · 9 stops · 21 days · 1,074 km
Johnson Randall
12 islands of Indonesia · Oct – Nov 1990
Johnson Randall across 12 islands of Indonesia, October – November 199076 specimens · 15 stops · 28 days · 1,705 km
Richard L. Pyle
5 islands · May – Jun 1992
Richard L. Pyle across 5 islands, May – June 199291 specimens · 11 stops · 13 days
John L. Earle
6 islands of Papua New Guinea · Nov – Dec 1995
John L. Earle across 6 islands of Papua New Guinea, November – December 199589 specimens · 7 stops · 37 days · 6,860 km
Ronald A. Englund
Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island · Feb – Jun 1998
Ronald A. Englund in Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island, February – June 199848 specimens · 21 stops · 119 days · 459 km
Johnson Randall
7 islands of Papua New Guinea · Nov – Dec 1995
Johnson Randall across 7 islands of Papua New Guinea, November – December 199574 specimens · 8 stops · 33 days · 7,022 km
Johnson Randall
4 islands · Nov – Dec 1996
Johnson Randall across 4 islands, November – December 199658 specimens · 10 stops · 18 days · 1,947 km
Johnson Randall
4 islands · Oct – Nov 1991
Johnson Randall across 4 islands, October – November 199162 specimens · 8 stops · 19 days
Richard L. Pyle
4 islands of Papua New Guinea · 3–16 Dec 1995
Richard L. Pyle across 4 islands of Papua New Guinea, 3–16 December 199563 specimens · 7 stops · 14 days · 200 km
John P. Hoover
4 islands of Oman · 1–24 Feb 1993
John P. Hoover across 4 islands of Oman, 1–24 February 199358 specimens · 6 stops · 24 days · 73 km
Hitoshi Ida
Ani-Jima and Chichi-Jima · 21–26 Jul 1991
Hitoshi Ida in Ani-Jima and Chichi-Jima, 21–26 July 199174 specimens · 5 stops · 6 days
Ian McLeish
3 islands of Oman · 5–9 Feb 1993
Ian McLeish in Southern Oman, Salalah and Oman, 5–9 February 199375 specimens · 5 stops · 5 days
Johnson Randall
7 islands · May – Jun 1993
Johnson Randall across 7 islands, May – June 199340 specimens · 11 stops · 37 days · 14,226 km
John P. Hoover
8 islands of Oman · Oct – Nov 1993
John P. Hoover across 8 islands of Oman, October – November 199349 specimens · 7 stops · 23 days · 37 km
Hitoshi Ida
4 islands · May – Jun 1992
Hitoshi Ida across 4 islands, May – June 199261 specimens · 6 stops · 7 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.