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. 10 journeys so far, 1975 to 1988, 3,063 specimens between them.
6 collectors and expeditions265 days in the field23,086 km between stops2 photographed specimens
10 journeys match
Johnson Randall
14 islands of Sri Lanka · Jan – Apr 1975
Johnson Randall across 14 islands of Sri Lanka, January – April 1975811 specimens · 56 stops · 88 days
Johnson Randall
11 islands · Aug – Oct 1988
Johnson Randall across 11 islands, August – October 1988522 specimens · 31 stops · 72 days · 5,627 km
Johnson Randall
14 islands · Jan – Apr 1980
Johnson Randall across 14 islands, January – April 1980346 specimens · 38 stops · 101 days
Johnson Randall
13 islands · Feb – Jun 1979
Johnson Randall across 13 islands, February – June 1979344 specimens · 33 stops · 111 days · 11,568 km
Johnson Randall
4 islands · 6–27 Mar 1988
Johnson Randall across 4 islands, 6–27 March 1988277 specimens · 17 stops · 22 days
Gerald R. Allen
9 islands · Feb – Apr 1979
Gerald R. Allen across 9 islands, February – April 1979163 specimens · 18 stops · 73 days · 5,891 km
M.S. Adam
4 islands · 6–27 Mar 1988
M.S. Adam across 4 islands, 6–27 March 1988208 specimens · 7 stops · 22 days
Rokuro YamaguchiDonald Anderson
North Male Atoll and South Male Atoll · 17–27 Mar 1988
Rokuro YamaguchiDonald Anderson in North Male Atoll and South Male Atoll, 17–27 March 1988206 specimens · 7 stops · 11 days
Roger C. Steene
4 islands · Feb – Mar 1979
Roger C. Steene across 4 islands, February – March 197991 specimens · 6 stops · 24 days
H. Shareef
South Male Atoll and North Male Atoll · 18–24 Mar 1988
H. Shareef in South Male Atoll and North Male Atoll, 18–24 March 198895 specimens · 2 stops · 7 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.