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. 16 journeys so far, 1923 to 2006, 5,745 specimens between them.
15 collectors and expeditions327 days in the field371,345 km between stops1,845 photographed specimens
16 journeys match
F. Raymond Fosberg
56 islands · Apr – Nov 1946
F. Raymond Fosberg across 56 islands, April – November 19462,439 specimens · 102 stops · 209 days · 105,682 km
Maxwell S. Doty
11 islands · Sep 1953 – Aug 1954
Maxwell S. Doty across 11 islands, September 1953 – August 1954309 specimens · 40 stops · 315 days · 78,333 km
M.L. Dailer
9 islands · Jan – Mar 2006
M.L. Dailer across 9 islands, January – March 2006800 specimens · 8 stops · 46 days · 3,681 km
K.N. Page
10 islands · Jan – Feb 2004
K.N. Page across 10 islands, January – February 2004679 specimens · 8 stops · 45 days · 4,821 km
P.S. Vroom
7 islands · Jan – Feb 2004
P.S. Vroom across 7 islands, January – February 2004336 specimens · 6 stops · 29 days · 7,651 km
P.S. Vroom
7 islands of the U.S. Outlying Islands · 18–31 Jan 2006
P.S. Vroom across 7 islands of the U.S. Outlying Islands, 18–31 January 2006289 specimens · 5 stops · 14 days · 2,146 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
5 islands of the Marshall Islands · Jul – Aug 1944
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. across 5 islands of the Marshall Islands, July – August 194496 specimens · 21 stops · 32 days · 35,937 km
Otto Degener
4 islands · Jan – Feb 1958
Otto Degener across 4 islands, January – February 195884 specimens · 20 stops · 41 days · 13,268 km
Isa Degener
4 islands · Jan – Feb 1958
Isa Degener across 4 islands, January – February 195879 specimens · 20 stops · 41 days · 13,268 km
H.J. Fortner
4 islands of the United States · Oct – Nov 1984
H.J. Fortner across 4 islands of the United States, October – November 198451 specimens · 10 stops · 53 days · 29,869 km
Stephen L. Coles
3 islands · May – Jun 2000
Stephen L. Coles in Johnston Island, Sand Island and Molokaʻi, May – June 2000219 specimens · 2 stops · 23 days · 3,552 km
J.B. Pollock
6 islands of the United States · Jul – Aug 1923
J.B. Pollock across 6 islands of the United States, July – August 192378 specimens · 10 stops · 35 days · 23,475 km
R.G. Buggeln
4 islands · 17–26 Aug 1965
R.G. Buggeln across 4 islands, 17–26 August 1965118 specimens · 6 stops · 10 days · 37,588 km
Donald Mitchell
5 islands of the United States · 1–28 Jun 1935
Donald Mitchell across 5 islands of the United States, 1–28 June 193560 specimens · 5 stops · 28 days · 6,857 km
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Alfred F. Judd Jr
5 islands · 1–19 Jun 1935
Alfred F. Judd Jr across 5 islands, 1–19 June 193557 specimens · 4 stops · 19 days · 5,025 km
G.J. Hollenberg
5 islands of the United States · Apr – May 1965
G.J. Hollenberg across 5 islands of the United States, April – May 196551 specimens · 5 stops · 16 days · 192 km
How a journey is found
Every specimen with a full date (year, month and day; a bare “1 January” is treated as a missing day) and a named collector is a diary entry. For each collector the days are read in order, each day given the place most of its labels name. The place where a collector spent more than forty percent of their days, and at least sixty of them, is home: days there are left out.
A gap of more than 21 days between collecting days ends one journey and begins the next. A journey must run five to four hundred days, hold at least forty specimens and touch at least two places. Within it, consecutive days inside the same or a neighbouring tenth-of-a-degree cell (about eleven kilometres) are one stop; the stop’s point is the mean of its labels’ coordinates, or the island’s centre when none carry any.
Companions are collectors whose own labels put them in the same cell on the same days. Staff can name a journey, write about it, feature it or hide it; those words survive every rebuild. Everything else is read off the specimens and rebuilt by harvest.mjs expeditions as the records improve.