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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. 1,954 journeys so far, 1874 to 2026, 349,432 specimens between them.

830 collectors and expeditions34,320 days in the field7,297,183 km between stops244,553 photographed specimens

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1,954 journeys match

Donald Anderson

34 islands · Apr – Oct 1934

Donald Anderson across 34 islands, April – October 1934

8,872 specimens · 35 stops · 202 days · 16,221 km

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo

22 islands of Palau · Dec 1935 – Jun 1936

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 22 islands of Palau, December 1935 – June 1936

6,659 specimens · 16 stops · 189 days · 15,221 km

S. Ito

19 islands of the United States · Dec 1935 – May 1936

S. Ito across 19 islands of the United States, December 1935 – May 1936

3,668 specimens · 32 stops · 178 days · 11,506 km

Clarence H. Cooke Jr.

26 islands · Apr – Oct 1934

Clarence H. Cooke Jr. across 26 islands, April – October 1934

3,369 specimens · 39 stops · 184 days · 14,736 km

Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.

85 islands · Nov 1923 – Nov 1924

Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. across 85 islands, November 1923 – November 1924

2,392 specimens · 109 stops · 342 days · 30,927 km

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo

23 islands · May – Dec 1949

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 23 islands, May – December 1949

2,551 specimens · 57 stops · 218 days · 71,593 km

Laurence H. MacDaniels

12 islands · Oct 1926 – Jul 1927

Laurence H. MacDaniels across 12 islands, October 1926 – July 1927

2,144 specimens · 105 stops · 274 days · 40,135 km

F. Raymond Fosberg

32 islands · Apr – Oct 1934

F. Raymond Fosberg across 32 islands, April – October 1934

2,503 specimens · 85 stops · 201 days · 23,387 km

F. Raymond Fosberg

56 islands · Apr – Nov 1946

F. Raymond Fosberg across 56 islands, April – November 1946

2,439 specimens · 102 stops · 209 days · 105,682 km

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo

12 islands of Fiji · Jun – Oct 1938

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 12 islands of Fiji, June – October 1938

2,255 specimens · 28 stops · 115 days · 15,460 km

Elwood Curtin Zimmerman

21 islands · Feb – Oct 1934

Elwood Curtin Zimmerman across 21 islands, February – October 1934

1,714 specimens · 56 stops · 248 days · 12,587 km

Albert C. Smith

16 islands · Oct 1933 – Jun 1934

Albert C. Smith across 16 islands, October 1933 – June 1934

2,049 specimens · 73 stops · 248 days · 76,386 km

Masahiko Takamatsu

31 islands · Dec 1935 – Jun 1936

Masahiko Takamatsu across 31 islands, December 1935 – June 1936

2,083 specimens · 77 stops · 205 days · 15,209 km

Ernani Meñez

50 islands · Jun – Sep 1960

Ernani Meñez across 50 islands, June – September 1960

2,317 specimens · 38 stops · 100 days · 40,857 km

Charles N. Forbes

5 islands of the United States · Jun – Dec 1917

Charles N. Forbes across 5 islands of the United States, June – December 1917

1,777 specimens · 29 stops · 163 days · 2,815 km

Donald Anderson

22 islands · Aug 1949 – Mar 1950

Donald Anderson across 22 islands, August 1949 – March 1950

1,249 specimens · 70 stops · 211 days · 151,545 km

Charles N. Forbes

3 islands of the United States · Mar – Jul 1920

Charles N. Forbes in Maui, Oʻahu and Lānaʻi, March – July 1920

1,158 specimens · 58 stops · 128 days · 1,111 km

Marie Catherine Neal

3 islands of New Zealand · Aug 1925 – Jan 1926

Marie Catherine Neal in New Zealand, South Island and Dunedin, August 1925 – January 1926

1,025 specimens · 65 stops · 147 days · 99,863 km

Otto Degener

5 islands of Fiji · Nov 1940 – Jul 1941

Otto Degener across 5 islands of Fiji, November 1940 – July 1941

1,263 specimens · 59 stops · 237 days · 15,888 km

Johnson Randall

25 islands · Mar – Dec 1968

Johnson Randall across 25 islands, March – December 1968

1,676 specimens · 99 stops · 261 days · 106,577 km

Joseph F. Rock

6 islands of the United States · Jun – Nov 1910

Joseph F. Rock across 6 islands of the United States, June – November 1910

1,111 specimens · 45 stops · 154 days · 2,685 km

Carl Skottsberg

4 islands of the United States · Apr – Nov 1922

Carl Skottsberg across 4 islands of the United States, April – November 1922

855 specimens · 82 stops · 217 days · 6,013 km

Wayne N. Takeuchi

11 islands · Oct 1987 – Sep 1988

Wayne N. Takeuchi across 11 islands, October 1987 – September 1988

947 specimens · 78 stops · 332 days · 6,730 km

Charles N. Forbes

6 islands of the United States · May – Jul 1915

Charles N. Forbes across 6 islands of the United States, May – July 1915

1,032 specimens · 49 stops · 79 days · 992 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.