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. 10 journeys so far, 2000 to 2003, 6,214 specimens between them.
9 collectors and expeditions184 days in the field65,889 km between stops2,975 photographed specimens
10 journeys match
P.S. Vroom
21 islands · Aug – Sep 2003
P.S. Vroom across 21 islands, August – September 20031,971 specimens · 23 stops · 37 days · 31,356 km
K. Shultz
9 islands · Sep – Oct 2002
K. Shultz across 9 islands, September – October 20021,025 specimens · 13 stops · 25 days · 2,876 km
K.A. Peyton
9 islands · Sep – Oct 2002
K.A. Peyton across 9 islands, September – October 2002979 specimens · 13 stops · 25 days · 2,876 km
K.J. Geisler
7 islands of the United States · Sep – Oct 2000
K.J. Geisler across 7 islands of the United States, September – October 2000786 specimens · 25 stops · 37 days · 5,446 km
Karla J. McDermid
8 islands of the United States · Sep – Oct 2002
Karla J. McDermid across 8 islands of the United States, September – October 2002383 specimens · 11 stops · 25 days · 2,834 km
B. Stuercke
8 islands of the United States · Sep – Oct 2002
B. Stuercke across 8 islands of the United States, September – October 2002347 specimens · 11 stops · 25 days · 2,838 km
J. Polloi
8 islands of the United States · Sep – Oct 2002
J. Polloi across 8 islands of the United States, September – October 2002301 specimens · 13 stops · 32 days · 5,304 km
P.S. Vroom
6 islands · Aug – Oct 2002
P.S. Vroom across 6 islands, August – October 2002215 specimens · 10 stops · 50 days · 8,208 km
Mrs Hughes
7 islands of the United States · Sep – Oct 2002
Mrs Hughes across 7 islands of the United States, September – October 2002122 specimens · 13 stops · 27 days · 2,889 km
K.N. Page
6 islands of the United States · 14–30 Jul 2003
K.N. Page across 6 islands of the United States, 14–30 July 200385 specimens · 7 stops · 17 days · 1,262 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.