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. 6 journeys so far, 1951 to 2009, 3,919 specimens between them.
5 collectors and expeditions98 days in the field72,068 km between stops512 photographed specimens
6 journeys match
P.S. Vroom
21 islands · Aug – Sep 2003
P.S. Vroom across 21 islands, August – September 20031,971 specimens · 23 stops · 37 days · 31,356 km
K.N. Page
16 islands of the Northern Mariana Islands · Sep – Nov 2005
K.N. Page across 16 islands of the Northern Mariana Islands, September – November 20051,365 specimens · 20 stops · 69 days · 37,880 km
Derral R. Herbst
8 islands · Feb – Mar 1984
Derral R. Herbst across 8 islands, February – March 1984370 specimens · 9 stops · 18 days · 1,158 km
Harold St.John
3 islands · Oct 1951 – Jan 1952
Harold St.John in Maui, Oʻahu and Maug, October 1951 – January 1952115 specimens · 15 stops · 85 days · 313 km
NOAA CRED
8 islands of the Northern Mariana Islands · Apr – May 2009
NOAA CRED, April – May 200945 specimens · 8 stops · 15 days · 820 km
K.N. Page
Maug and Saipan · May – Jun 2007
K.N. Page in Maug and Saipan, May – June 200753 specimens · 2 stops · 11 days · 541 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.