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. 3 journeys so far, 1967 to 1974, 319 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions56 days in the field5,133 km between stops295 photographed specimens
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Journeys with photographed specimens3 journeys match
J.R. Croft
3 islands of Papua New Guinea · Aug – Oct 1974
J.R. Croft in Lavongai, New Ireland and Fergusson Island, August – October 1974152 specimens · 14 stops · 60 days · 4,346 km
Y. Lelean
Lavongai and New Ireland · Sep – Oct 1974
Y. Lelean in Lavongai and New Ireland, September – October 1974104 specimens · 4 stops · 46 days · 315 km
M.J.E. Coode
New Ireland and Lavongai · Jan – Feb 1967
M.J.E. Coode in New Ireland and Lavongai, January – February 196763 specimens · 6 stops · 26 days · 472 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.