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. 3 journeys so far, 1973 to 1992, 366 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions69 days in the field9,925 km between stops310 photographed specimens
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Journeys with photographed specimens3 journeys match
Grady L. Webster
6 islands · Aug – Dec 1973
Grady L. Webster across 6 islands, August – December 1973137 specimens · 44 stops · 125 days · 9,925 km
D. Mueller-Dombois
Lord Howe and Norfolk Island · 5–17 Sep 1992
D. Mueller-Dombois in Lord Howe and Norfolk Island, 5–17 September 1992185 specimens · 10 stops · 13 days
W.R. Sykes
Norfolk Island and Norfolk · 7–20 Apr 1980
W.R. Sykes in Norfolk Island and Norfolk, 7–20 April 198044 specimens · 14 stops · 14 days
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.