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, 1973 to 1991, 862 specimens between them.
5 collectors and expeditions122 days in the field12,480 km between stops
6 journeys match
Johnson Randall
10 islands · Jan – Apr 1973
Johnson Randall across 10 islands, January – April 1973499 specimens · 49 stops · 110 days · 10,184 km
B.C. Russell
Lord Howe and One Tree · Jan – Feb 1973
B.C. Russell in Lord Howe and One Tree, January – February 1973102 specimens · 18 stops · 47 days
Gerald R. Allen
One Tree and Lord Howe · Jan – Feb 1973
Gerald R. Allen in One Tree and Lord Howe, January – February 197388 specimens · 16 stops · 41 days
B. Goldman
Lord Howe · 5–26 Feb 1973
B. Goldman in Lord Howe, 5–26 February 197368 specimens · 10 stops · 22 days
D.F. Hoese
Lord Howe · 5–26 Feb 1973
D.F. Hoese in Lord Howe, 5–26 February 197365 specimens · 11 stops · 22 days
Johnson Randall
3 islands of Fiji · Jan – Mar 1991
Johnson Randall in Norfolk Island, Viti Levu and Lord Howe, January – March 199140 specimens · 9 stops · 42 days · 2,296 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.