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, 1929 to 1996, 985 specimens between them.
5 collectors and expeditions86 days in the field14,372 km between stops247 photographed specimens
5 journeys match
R. Kanehira
18 islands · Jun – Aug 1929
R. Kanehira across 18 islands, June – August 1929195 specimens · 28 stops · 90 days · 12,115 km
Joan E. Canfield
5 islands of Palau · 16–29 Jul 1991
Joan E. Canfield across 5 islands of Palau, 16–29 July 1991234 specimens · 14 stops · 14 days · 414 km
Derral R. Herbst
6 islands of Palau · 16–29 Jul 1991
Derral R. Herbst across 6 islands of Palau, 16–29 July 1991232 specimens · 14 stops · 14 days · 414 km
R.L. Stemmermann
5 islands of Palau · 16–29 Jul 1991
R.L. Stemmermann across 5 islands of Palau, 16–29 July 1991231 specimens · 14 stops · 14 days · 414 km
Joe Ward
4 islands of Palau · May – Jun 1996
Joe Ward across 4 islands of Palau, May – June 199693 specimens · 8 stops · 35 days · 1,015 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.