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. 76 journeys so far, 1904 to 2003, 25,212 specimens between them.
38 collectors and expeditions1,648 days in the field181,468 km between stops20,025 photographed specimens
76 journeys match
Charles N. Forbes
Oʻahu and Maui · Jan – Feb 1920
Charles N. Forbes in Oʻahu and Maui, January – February 192048 specimens · 3 stops · 28 days · 96 km
Walker
Maui · Jun – Jul 1919
Walker in Maui, June – July 191945 specimens · 3 stops · 39 days
Alice T. Cooke
Maui · 25–29 May 1915
Alice T. Cooke in Maui, 25–29 May 191555 specimens · 2 stops · 5 days · 38 km
Ditlev Due Thaanum
4 islands · 1–13 Oct 1911
Ditlev Due Thaanum across 4 islands, 1–13 October 191143 specimens · 2 stops · 13 days · 198 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.