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. 196 journeys so far, 2000 to 2009, 30,751 specimens between them.
109 collectors and expeditions2,118 days in the field500,629 km between stops11,357 photographed specimens
196 journeys match
K.N. Page
Maug and Saipan · May – Jun 2007
K.N. Page in Maug and Saipan, May – June 200753 specimens · 2 stops · 11 days · 541 km
Johnson Randall
3 islands of Fiji · 12–24 Mar 2002
Johnson Randall in Nananu-I-Cake Island, Charybdis Reef and Viti Levu, 12–24 March 200241 specimens · 4 stops · 13 days · 1,140 km
Reilo Langsi
Pohnpei · Apr – May 2007
Reilo Langsi in Pohnpei, April – May 200746 specimens · 2 stops · 16 days · 21 km
K.N. Page
Tau and Swains Island · 12–18 Feb 2002
K.N. Page in Tau and Swains Island, 12–18 February 200241 specimens · 2 stops · 7 days · 395 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.