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. 15 journeys so far, 1922 to 1988, 2,593 specimens between them.
10 collectors and expeditions398 days in the field97,101 km between stops1,198 photographed specimens
15 journeys match
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Gerrit Parmele Wilder
4 islands · Feb – Sep 1929
Gerrit Parmele Wilder across 4 islands, February – September 1929605 specimens · 77 stops · 205 days · 5,048 km
Wood Jones
22 islands · Jul – Dec 1922
Wood Jones across 22 islands, July – December 1922478 specimens · 45 stops · 142 days · 3,823 km
Gerrit Parmele Wilder
3 islands of French Polynesia · Aug – Dec 1932
Gerrit Parmele Wilder in Makatea, Tahiti and Moorea, August – December 1932218 specimens · 23 stops · 120 days · 1,308 km
Gerrit Parmele Wilder
7 islands · Aug – Sep 1923
Gerrit Parmele Wilder across 7 islands, August – September 1923171 specimens · 15 stops · 36 days · 5,391 km
Jacques Florence
6 islands of French Polynesia · Nov – Dec 1982
Jacques Florence across 6 islands of French Polynesia, November – December 1982276 specimens · 8 stops · 47 days · 3,804 km
W.A. Whistler
9 islands · Apr – Jun 1985
W.A. Whistler across 9 islands, April – June 1985140 specimens · 32 stops · 75 days · 9,570 km
P.H. Birnbaum
4 islands of French Polynesia · Sep – Nov 1988
P.H. Birnbaum across 4 islands of French Polynesia, September – November 1988110 specimens · 13 stops · 79 days · 698 km
Hessler Brown
13 islands of French Polynesia · Aug – Dec 1922
Hessler Brown across 13 islands of French Polynesia, August – December 192274 specimens · 29 stops · 137 days · 9,305 km
Whitney Expedition
12 islands of French Polynesia · Jun – Sep 1922
Whitney Expedition, June – September 192263 specimens · 16 stops · 86 days · 4,274 km
Jacques Florence
4 islands of French Polynesia · Apr – May 1982
Jacques Florence across 4 islands of French Polynesia, April – May 1982122 specimens · 6 stops · 54 days · 3,245 km
Jacques Florence
Moorea and Makatea · Dec 1981 – Jan 1982
Jacques Florence in Moorea and Makatea, December 1981 – January 1982114 specimens · 6 stops · 22 days · 282 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
7 islands · May – Jun 1985
F. Raymond Fosberg across 7 islands, May – June 198565 specimens · 10 stops · 35 days · 36,228 km
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
5 islands · Jan – Feb 1961
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 5 islands, January – February 196149 specimens · 14 stops · 40 days · 5,401 km
Jacques Florence
Makatea and Rurutu · Jan – Mar 1988
Jacques Florence in Makatea and Rurutu, January – March 198863 specimens · 4 stops · 61 days · 1,038 km
M.D. Merlin
5 islands · Jul – Aug 1986
M.D. Merlin across 5 islands, July – August 198645 specimens · 8 stops · 41 days · 7,686 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.