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. 4 journeys so far, 2001 to 2008, 1,602 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions55 days in the field19,314 km between stops311 photographed specimens
4 journeys match
M.L. Dailer
9 islands · Jan – Mar 2006
M.L. Dailer across 9 islands, January – March 2006800 specimens · 8 stops · 46 days · 3,681 km
P.S. Vroom
7 islands · Jan – Mar 2002
P.S. Vroom across 7 islands, January – March 2002348 specimens · 9 stops · 50 days · 6,339 km
Robert H. Cowie
5 islands · Feb – Apr 2001
Robert H. Cowie across 5 islands, February – April 2001353 specimens · 8 stops · 44 days · 8,534 km
S.W. Cooper
5 islands of American Samoa · Feb – Mar 2008
S.W. Cooper across 5 islands of American Samoa, February – March 2008101 specimens · 7 stops · 25 days · 760 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.