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. 11 journeys so far, 1922 to 1991, 28,106 specimens between them.
11 collectors and expeditions495 days in the field71,800 km between stops26,534 photographed specimens
11 journeys match
Mangarevan Expedition
29 islands · May – Nov 1934
Mangarevan Expedition, May – November 193415,215 specimens · 33 stops · 173 days · 12,849 km
Donald Anderson
34 islands · Apr – Oct 1934
Donald Anderson across 34 islands, April – October 19348,872 specimens · 35 stops · 202 days · 16,221 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
32 islands · Apr – Oct 1934
F. Raymond Fosberg across 32 islands, April – October 19342,503 specimens · 85 stops · 201 days · 23,387 km
Fosberg F. Raymond
14 islands · May – Oct 1934
Fosberg F. Raymond across 14 islands, May – October 1934693 specimens · 14 stops · 144 days · 6,414 km
Jacques Florence
4 islands · Apr – Jul 1991
Jacques Florence across 4 islands, April – July 1991294 specimens · 7 stops · 85 days · 5,985 km
MacDonald
5 islands · May – Jun 1934
MacDonald across 5 islands, May – June 1934151 specimens · 5 stops · 26 days · 1,342 km
Ernest H. Quayle
14 islands · Apr – May 1922
Ernest H. Quayle across 14 islands, April – May 1922112 specimens · 12 stops · 40 days · 3,640 km
S. Waldren
3 islands of the Pitcairn Islands · May – Jul 1991
S. Waldren in Henderson Island, Oeno Island and Pitcairn Island, May – July 1991105 specimens · 4 stops · 72 days · 697 km
A.J. Chepstov-Lusty
3 islands of the Pitcairn Islands · Apr – Jul 1991
A.J. Chepstov-Lusty in Henderson Island, Oeno Island and Pitcairn Island, April – July 199179 specimens · 4 stops · 75 days · 695 km
T. Spencer
3 islands of the Pitcairn Islands · 12–28 May 1987
T. Spencer in Henderson Island, Oeno Island and Pitcairn Island, 12–28 May 198741 specimens · 4 stops · 17 days · 285 km
Gustav Paulay
3 islands of the Pitcairn Islands · 12–28 May 1987
Gustav Paulay in Henderson Island, Oeno Island and Pitcairn Island, 12–28 May 198741 specimens · 4 stops · 17 days · 285 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.