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. 13 journeys so far, 1967 to 1979, 1,682 specimens between them.
2 collectors and expeditions302 days in the field50,364 km between stops
13 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
7 islands · Jul – Aug 1973
Gerald R. Allen across 7 islands, July – August 1973241 specimens · 22 stops · 48 days · 2,361 km
Gerald R. Allen
3 islands · Jan – Feb 1975
Gerald R. Allen in Ambon, Pulau Putri and Indonesia, January – February 1975222 specimens · 23 stops · 36 days
Gerald R. Allen
17 islands of Australia · Nov 1971 – Jul 1972
Gerald R. Allen across 17 islands of Australia, November 1971 – July 1972122 specimens · 56 stops · 244 days · 3,375 km
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
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
7 islands of Oman · Feb – Mar 1977
Gerald R. Allen across 7 islands of Oman, February – March 197790 specimens · 17 stops · 44 days · 2,615 km
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
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
4 islands of the United States · May – Aug 1967
Gerald R. Allen across 4 islands of the United States, May – August 196776 specimens · 11 stops · 84 days · 1,310 km
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.