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. 6 journeys so far, 1964 to 1977, 1,972 specimens between them.
5 collectors and expeditions165 days in the field109,149 km between stops286 photographed specimens
6 journeys match
Johnson Randall
25 islands · Mar – Dec 1968
Johnson Randall across 25 islands, March – December 19681,676 specimens · 99 stops · 261 days · 106,577 km
M.T. Kao
Honshu and Japan · Jun – Jul 1972
M.T. Kao in Honshu and Japan, June – July 197274 specimens · 12 stops · 23 days
Zennoske Iwatsuki
4 islands of Japan · 1–28 Dec 1964
Zennoske Iwatsuki across 4 islands of Japan, 1–28 December 196462 specimens · 10 stops · 28 days · 943 km
Evelyn B. Sharp
4 islands of Japan · 1–28 Dec 1964
Evelyn B. Sharp across 4 islands of Japan, 1–28 December 196459 specimens · 10 stops · 28 days · 943 km
Zennoske Iwatsuki
4 islands of Japan · Aug – Sep 1975
Zennoske Iwatsuki across 4 islands of Japan, August – September 197547 specimens · 12 stops · 37 days · 686 km
T. Miyata
Honshu and Japan · 1–20 Nov 1977
T. Miyata in Honshu and Japan, 1–20 November 197754 specimens · 2 stops · 20 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.