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, 2011 to 2015, 1,248 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions52 days in the field10,301 km between stops1,248 photographed specimens
4 journeys match
S.A. He
New Guinea · 1–23 Feb 2013
S.A. He in New Guinea, 1–23 February 2013688 specimens · 12 stops · 23 days · 4,056 km
M. Sundue
New Guinea · 3–23 Feb 2013
M. Sundue in New Guinea, 3–23 February 2013300 specimens · 2 stops · 21 days · 483 km
O. Paul
New Britain and New Guinea · Jul – Aug 2011
O. Paul in New Britain and New Guinea, July – August 2011174 specimens · 2 stops · 30 days · 382 km
S. Chanel
Guadalcanal and New Guinea · 9–17 Sep 2015
S. Chanel in Guadalcanal and New Guinea, 9–17 September 201586 specimens · 7 stops · 9 days · 5,380 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.