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. 37 journeys so far, 1933 to 2003, 8,845 specimens between them.
32 collectors and expeditions999 days in the field383,606 km between stops4,659 photographed specimens
37 journeys match
Neil Snow
New Caledonia · Jul – Aug 2003
Neil Snow in New Caledonia, July – August 2003108 specimens · 10 stops · 18 days · 3,739 km
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
4 islands · Jan – Feb 1962
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 4 islands, January – February 196257 specimens · 12 stops · 30 days · 22,109 km
John T. Buchholz
3 islands · Feb – Mar 1948
John T. Buchholz in New Caledonia, Isle Of Pines and New Guinea, February – March 194862 specimens · 13 stops · 51 days
Lynette Williams
4 islands of New Caledonia · Oct – Nov 1940
Lynette Williams across 4 islands of New Caledonia, October – November 194060 specimens · 7 stops · 29 days · 3,339 km
J.W. Dawson
New Caledonia · 5–16 Aug 2003
J.W. Dawson in New Caledonia, 5–16 August 200388 specimens · 9 stops · 12 days · 3,739 km
B. Williamson
New Caledonia · 5–16 Aug 2003
B. Williamson in New Caledonia, 5–16 August 200388 specimens · 9 stops · 12 days · 3,739 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
Grande-Terre and New Caledonia · Jun – Aug 1949
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Grande-Terre and New Caledonia, June – August 194965 specimens · 5 stops · 36 days
B. Sneddon
New Caledonia · 8–16 Aug 2003
B. Sneddon in New Caledonia, 8–16 August 200377 specimens · 8 stops · 9 days · 3,507 km
Judson Linsley Gressitt
New Caledonia · Jan – Mar 1972
Judson Linsley Gressitt in New Caledonia, January – March 197251 specimens · 14 stops · 81 days · 1,654 km
Ch. Tanaka
New Caledonia · 5–15 Mar 1992
Ch. Tanaka in New Caledonia, 5–15 March 199277 specimens · 7 stops · 11 days
P. McKown
3 islands · 1–6 Feb 1970
P. McKown in New Caledonia, Isle Of Pines and Cebu, 1–6 February 197056 specimens · 4 stops · 6 days
C.H. Lamoureux
South Island and New Caledonia · 12–25 Jul 1966
C.H. Lamoureux in South Island and New Caledonia, 12–25 July 196655 specimens · 3 stops · 14 days · 2,990 km
Y. Doi
New Caledonia · Feb – Mar 1992
Y. Doi in New Caledonia, February – March 199252 specimens · 8 stops · 25 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.