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. 69 journeys so far, 1912 to 2004, 37,263 specimens between them.
38 collectors and expeditions2,453 days in the field731,065 km between stops23,240 photographed specimens
69 journeys match
J.E.R. Tilden
Tahiti and Australia · Aug – Sep 1912
J.E.R. Tilden in Tahiti and Australia, August – September 1912117 specimens · 7 stops · 32 days
Hessler Brown
13 islands of French Polynesia · Aug – Dec 1922
Hessler Brown across 13 islands of French Polynesia, August – December 192274 specimens · 29 stops · 137 days · 9,305 km
Johnson Randall
5 islands · Feb – May 1956
Johnson Randall across 5 islands, February – May 1956111 specimens · 14 stops · 108 days · 128 km
Charles Walters
Tahiti and Oʻahu · May – Sep 1967
Charles Walters in Tahiti and Oʻahu, May – September 1967110 specimens · 14 stops · 126 days · 8,847 km
Whitney Expedition
12 islands of French Polynesia · Jun – Sep 1922
Whitney Expedition, June – September 192263 specimens · 16 stops · 86 days · 4,274 km
Alastair M. Adamson
Tahiti · Aug – Sep 1928
Alastair M. Adamson in Tahiti, August – September 192891 specimens · 6 stops · 28 days · 82 km
Johnson Randall
9 islands of French Polynesia · Feb – Jul 1957
Johnson Randall across 9 islands of French Polynesia, February – July 195786 specimens · 22 stops · 146 days · 1,617 km
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Gerrit Parmele Wilder
7 islands · Jun – Aug 1925
Gerrit Parmele Wilder across 7 islands, June – August 192552 specimens · 22 stops · 65 days · 10,586 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
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
7 islands · Nov 1977 – Feb 1978
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 7 islands, November 1977 – February 197861 specimens · 19 stops · 80 days · 5,557 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
F. Raymond Fosberg
7 islands · May – Jun 1985
F. Raymond Fosberg across 7 islands, May – June 198565 specimens · 10 stops · 35 days · 36,228 km
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
7 islands · Jan – Mar 1960
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 7 islands, January – March 196057 specimens · 7 stops · 58 days · 16,910 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
Dennis M. Devaney
16 islands · Sep – Oct 1967
Dennis M. Devaney across 16 islands, September – October 196750 specimens · 18 stops · 56 days · 7,816 km
J.C. Jolinon
4 islands of French Polynesia · Jan – Feb 1987
J.C. Jolinon across 4 islands of French Polynesia, January – February 198749 specimens · 15 stops · 53 days · 85 km
N. Hallé
3 islands of French Polynesia · May – Jun 1979
N. Hallé in Tubuai, Tahiti and Marotiri, May – June 197950 specimens · 16 stops · 41 days
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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
H. Kennedy
3 islands · Aug – Sep 1979
H. Kennedy in Tahiti, Hawaiʻi Island and Upolu, August – September 197942 specimens · 11 stops · 33 days · 6,642 km
M.-H Sachet
4 islands · Jun – Jul 1976
M.-H Sachet across 4 islands, June – July 197646 specimens · 8 stops · 28 days · 2,621 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.