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. 20 journeys so far, 1921 to 1995, 21,158 specimens between them.
17 collectors and expeditions766 days in the field198,779 km between stops18,153 photographed specimens
20 journeys match
Donald Anderson
34 islands · Apr – Oct 1934
Donald Anderson across 34 islands, April – October 19348,872 specimens · 35 stops · 202 days · 16,221 km
Clarence H. Cooke Jr.
26 islands · Apr – Oct 1934
Clarence H. Cooke Jr. across 26 islands, April – October 19343,369 specimens · 39 stops · 184 days · 14,736 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
32 islands · Apr – Oct 1934
F. Raymond Fosberg across 32 islands, April – October 19342,503 specimens · 85 stops · 201 days · 23,387 km
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
21 islands · Feb – Oct 1934
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman across 21 islands, February – October 19341,714 specimens · 56 stops · 248 days · 12,587 km
Samuel Wight
16 islands of French Polynesia · May – Oct 1934
Samuel Wight across 16 islands of French Polynesia, May – October 1934733 specimens · 24 stops · 156 days · 7,021 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
8 islands · Jul – Oct 1934
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 8 islands, July – October 1934620 specimens · 10 stops · 91 days · 1,948 km
Kenneth R. Wood
8 islands · Jul – Dec 1995
Kenneth R. Wood across 8 islands, July – December 1995447 specimens · 35 stops · 139 days · 32,262 km
Anderson
9 islands of French Polynesia · Jul – Oct 1934
Anderson across 9 islands of French Polynesia, July – October 1934419 specimens · 12 stops · 91 days · 2,313 km
Jacques Florence
4 islands of French Polynesia · Oct 1983 – Mar 1984
Jacques Florence across 4 islands of French Polynesia, October 1983 – March 1984556 specimens · 12 stops · 133 days · 8,247 km
Steven Perlman
9 islands · Aug – Dec 1995
Steven Perlman across 9 islands, August – December 1995320 specimens · 39 stops · 137 days · 51,778 km
W.R. Sykes
5 islands · Apr – Jul 1992
W.R. Sykes across 5 islands, April – July 1992414 specimens · 16 stops · 75 days · 4,191 km
A.M. Stokes
3 islands of French Polynesia · Jan – Apr 1921
A.M. Stokes in Rurutu, Rimatara and Raivavae, January – April 1921309 specimens · 23 stops · 80 days · 710 km
J.C. Chapin
15 islands · Oct 1934 – Jan 1935
J.C. Chapin across 15 islands, October 1934 – January 1935125 specimens · 26 stops · 107 days · 13,508 km
Jacques Florence
5 islands of French Polynesia · Mar – May 1992
Jacques Florence across 5 islands of French Polynesia, March – May 1992227 specimens · 6 stops · 49 days · 2,824 km
Jacques Florence
3 islands of French Polynesia · Oct – Nov 1992
Jacques Florence in Huahine, Tahaa and Raivavae, October – November 1992256 specimens · 2 stops · 8 days · 54 km
John Francis Gray Stokes
3 islands of French Polynesia · Mar – Apr 1922
John Francis Gray Stokes in Raivavae, Rapa and Rimatara, March – April 192250 specimens · 9 stops · 52 days · 8 km
Ernest H. Quayle
8 islands · Dec 1921 – Feb 1922
Ernest H. Quayle across 8 islands, December 1921 – February 192246 specimens · 12 stops · 57 days · 6,573 km
A.M. Stokes
Raivavae · Mar – Apr 1922
A.M. Stokes in Raivavae, March – April 192255 specimens · 6 stops · 37 days
Walter Hambuechen
3 islands of French Polynesia · 1–5 Dec 1960
Walter Hambuechen in Rurutu, Tubuai and Raivavae, 1–5 December 196083 specimens · 3 stops · 5 days
Alex B. Anderson
3 islands of French Polynesia · 8–26 Aug 1934
Alex B. Anderson in Tubuai, Rurutu and Raivavae, 8–26 August 193440 specimens · 5 stops · 19 days · 411 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.