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. 22 journeys so far, 1930 to 2004, 22,720 specimens between them.
20 collectors and expeditions810 days in the field176,216 km between stops19,347 photographed specimens
22 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
Harold St.John
7 islands · Sep 1932 – Jan 1933
Harold St.John across 7 islands, September 1932 – January 1933929 specimens · 23 stops · 113 days · 8,847 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
Martin L. Grant
8 islands of French Polynesia · Nov 1930 – Feb 1931
Martin L. Grant across 8 islands of French Polynesia, November 1930 – February 1931822 specimens · 31 stops · 90 days · 1,081 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
6 islands · May – Jul 1982
F. Raymond Fosberg across 6 islands, May – July 1982691 specimens · 46 stops · 88 days · 10,015 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
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
Betsy H. Gagne
11 islands · Jun – Sep 1977
Betsy H. Gagne across 11 islands, June – September 1977480 specimens · 22 stops · 84 days · 12,628 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
6 islands · Jun – Aug 1981
F. Raymond Fosberg across 6 islands, June – August 1981350 specimens · 25 stops · 47 days · 39,992 km
Hugh Shaw MacKee
9 islands · Jul – Sep 1955
Hugh Shaw MacKee across 9 islands, July – September 1955222 specimens · 28 stops · 64 days · 5,455 km
Jan Newhouse
6 islands · Dec 1968 – Feb 1969
Jan Newhouse across 6 islands, December 1968 – February 1969162 specimens · 13 stops · 62 days · 4,798 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
R. Tahuaitu
3 islands of French Polynesia · Oct – Nov 1992
R. Tahuaitu in Huahine, Tahaa and Tahiti, October – November 1992238 specimens · 2 stops · 8 days · 54 km
A. Mouly
5 islands of French Polynesia · Jun – Jul 2004
A. Mouly across 5 islands of French Polynesia, June – July 200460 specimens · 17 stops · 37 days · 1,785 km
Liloa Dunn
4 islands of French Polynesia · Nov – Dec 2003
Liloa Dunn across 4 islands of French Polynesia, November – December 200394 specimens · 5 stops · 28 days · 1,902 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
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Steven L. Montgomery
7 islands of French Polynesia · Jul – Sep 1977
Steven L. Montgomery across 7 islands of French Polynesia, July – September 197745 specimens · 12 stops · 71 days · 4,361 km
Kenneth R. Wood
3 islands of French Polynesia · Nov – Dec 2003
Kenneth R. Wood in Ua Huka, Ua Pou and Huahine, November – December 200352 specimens · 11 stops · 28 days · 1,630 km
Dominique Baré
Huahine · 8–25 Mar 1977
Dominique Baré in Huahine, 8–25 March 197740 specimens · 6 stops · 18 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.