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. 5 journeys so far, 1922 to 1932, 2,210 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions186 days in the field19,906 km between stops1,634 photographed specimens
5 journeys match
Pacific Entomological Survey
6 islands of French Polynesia · May 1930 – Jan 1931
Pacific Entomological Survey, May 1930 – January 1931797 specimens · 34 stops · 228 days · 8,102 km
Ernest H. Quayle
25 islands · Jun – Nov 1922
Ernest H. Quayle across 25 islands, June – November 1922642 specimens · 56 stops · 162 days · 7,539 km
Wood Jones
22 islands · Jul – Dec 1922
Wood Jones across 22 islands, July – December 1922478 specimens · 45 stops · 142 days · 3,823 km
Pacific Entomological Survey
Ua Pou and Hiva Oa · Oct – Dec 1931
Pacific Entomological Survey, October – December 1931233 specimens · 2 stops · 36 days · 125 km
Pacific Entomological Survey
Hiva Oa and Ua Pou · Dec 1931 – Jan 1932
Pacific Entomological Survey, December 1931 – January 193260 specimens · 4 stops · 31 days · 317 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.