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, 1992 to 1998, 814 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions36 days in the field503 km between stops35 photographed specimens
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Journeys with photographed specimens3 journeys match
Robert H. Cowie
Tutuila and Hawaiʻi Island · 3–16 Mar 1998
Robert H. Cowie in Tutuila and Hawaiʻi Island, 3–16 March 1998511 specimens · 12 stops · 14 days
Robert H. Cowie
5 islands · Oct – Nov 1992
Robert H. Cowie across 5 islands, October – November 1992131 specimens · 14 stops · 35 days · 503 km
Robert H. Cowie
Tutuila · 6–16 Oct 1998
Robert H. Cowie in Tutuila, 6–16 October 1998172 specimens · 10 stops · 11 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.