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. 530 journeys so far, 1882 to 2003, 205,265 specimens between them.
230 collectors and expeditions9,713 days in the field2,446,348 km between stops172,106 photographed specimens
530 journeys match
Kazue Ozaki Earl T. Ozaki Collection
Oʻahu · 4–11 Aug 1963
Kazue Ozaki Earl T. Ozaki Collection, 4–11 August 196340 specimens · 3 stops · 8 days
Dennis M. Devaney
Mangareva Island and Anuanuraro · 5–11 Dec 1970
Dennis M. Devaney in Mangareva Island and Anuanuraro, 5–11 December 197040 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.