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, 1924 to 1952, 6,495 specimens between them.
9 collectors and expeditions331 days in the field287,646 km between stops5,246 photographed specimens
10 journeys match
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
23 islands · May – Dec 1949
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 23 islands, May – December 19492,551 specimens · 57 stops · 218 days · 71,593 km
Donald Anderson
22 islands · Aug 1949 – Mar 1950
Donald Anderson across 22 islands, August 1949 – March 19501,249 specimens · 70 stops · 211 days · 151,545 km
Edward Yataro Hosaka
31 islands · Apr – Aug 1946
Edward Yataro Hosaka across 31 islands, April – August 1946872 specimens · 51 stops · 110 days · 43,680 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
9 islands · May – Jul 1952
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 9 islands, May – July 1952877 specimens · 23 stops · 74 days · 18,027 km
A.M. Albert Mead
7 islands of Japan · Jun – Jul 1949
A.M. Albert Mead across 7 islands of Japan, June – July 1949380 specimens · 18 stops · 42 days · 844 km
Henry E. Crampton
7 islands · Jun – Jul 1928
Henry E. Crampton across 7 islands, June – July 1928198 specimens · 8 stops · 18 days · 1,618 km
Edward Y. Hosaka
Saipan and Tinian · Jun – Jul 1946
Edward Y. Hosaka in Saipan and Tinian, June – July 1946137 specimens · 2 stops · 22 days · 188 km
G. George D. Peterson
4 islands of the Northern Mariana Islands · May – Jun 1952
G. George D. Peterson across 4 islands of the Northern Mariana Islands, May – June 195286 specimens · 4 stops · 23 days · 62 km
Hans George Hornbostel
Tinian · 1–23 May 1924
Hans George Hornbostel in Tinian, 1–23 May 192477 specimens · 2 stops · 23 days
Various
3 islands · May – Jun 1952
Various in Aguijan, Rota and Tinian, May – June 195268 specimens · 2 stops · 36 days · 89 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.