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, 1968 to 1973, 680 specimens between them.
2 collectors and expeditions117 days in the field34,812 km between stops
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Journeys with photographed specimens6 journeys match
Gerald R. Allen
5 islands · Jan – May 1969
Gerald R. Allen across 5 islands, January – May 1969248 specimens · 25 stops · 109 days · 10,864 km
Gerald R. Allen
Enewetak Atoll and Oʻahu · May – Sep 1968
Gerald R. Allen in Enewetak Atoll and Oʻahu, May – September 196893 specimens · 33 stops · 99 days · 4,744 km
Gerald R. Allen
Enewetak Atoll and Oʻahu · Mar – Apr 1968
Gerald R. Allen in Enewetak Atoll and Oʻahu, March – April 1968123 specimens · 11 stops · 55 days · 14,231 km
Gerald R. Allen
Enewetak Atoll · Nov – Dec 1968
Gerald R. Allen in Enewetak Atoll, November – December 1968106 specimens · 7 stops · 25 days
Gerald R. Allen
Enewetak Atoll · 2–19 Jan 1970
Gerald R. Allen in Enewetak Atoll, 2–19 January 197063 specimens · 10 stops · 18 days
Paul Allen
3 islands · May – Aug 1973
Paul Allen in Enewetak Atoll, Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, May – August 197347 specimens · 12 stops · 94 days · 4,973 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.