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. 83 journeys so far, 1903 to 2015, 11,906 specimens between them.
67 collectors and expeditions2,236 days in the field428,020 km between stops9,405 photographed specimens
83 journeys match
K.Q. Damas
4 islands of Papua New Guinea · 1–29 Mar 1979
K.Q. Damas across 4 islands of Papua New Guinea, 1–29 March 197950 specimens · 4 stops · 29 days · 258 km
Donald P. Abbott
4 islands · Jun – Jul 1973
Donald P. Abbott across 4 islands, June – July 197349 specimens · 4 stops · 26 days · 4,659 km
John H. Beaman
New Guinea · Aug – Sep 1998
John H. Beaman in New Guinea, August – September 199844 specimens · 5 stops · 38 days · 89 km
T. Umba
New Guinea · Mar – May 1975
T. Umba in New Guinea, March – May 197561 specimens · 2 stops · 45 days · 353 km
Al. Towati
New Guinea · Aug – Sep 2005
Al. Towati in New Guinea, August – September 200554 specimens · 4 stops · 20 days · 220 km
D. Ama
New Guinea · Aug – Sep 2005
D. Ama in New Guinea, August – September 200554 specimens · 4 stops · 20 days · 220 km
J.C. Regalado Jr.
New Guinea · Jun – Jul 1995
J.C. Regalado Jr. in New Guinea, June – July 199561 specimens · 2 stops · 23 days · 624 km
A. Sadili
New Guinea · Oct – Nov 1998
A. Sadili in New Guinea, October – November 199843 specimens · 3 stops · 30 days · 1,594 km
J.C. Regalado Jr.
New Guinea and New Ireland · 1–16 Aug 1995
J.C. Regalado Jr. in New Guinea and New Ireland, 1–16 August 199543 specimens · 3 stops · 16 days · 857 km
S. Thomas
3 islands of Indonesia · 4–22 Apr 1995
S. Thomas in New Guinea, Irian Jaya and Papua, 4–22 April 199551 specimens · 2 stops · 19 days · 24 km
K. Taho
New Guinea · Aug – Sep 1973
K. Taho in New Guinea, August – September 197341 specimens · 2 stops · 7 days · 56 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.