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. 56 journeys so far, 1923 to 1993, 23,890 specimens between them.
41 collectors and expeditions1,681 days in the field620,561 km between stops17,987 photographed specimens
56 journeys match
S. Pillay
Viti Levu · Sep – Dec 1960
S. Pillay in Viti Levu, September – December 196042 specimens · 12 stops · 81 days
M.A. Weiner
5 islands of Fiji · Jun – Jul 1971
M.A. Weiner across 5 islands of Fiji, June – July 197171 specimens · 9 stops · 25 days · 11,374 km
R.C. Phillips
4 islands · Jun – Jul 1973
R.C. Phillips across 4 islands, June – July 197355 specimens · 4 stops · 26 days · 4,659 km
Donald P. Abbott
4 islands · Jun – Jul 1973
Donald P. Abbott across 4 islands, June – July 197349 specimens · 4 stops · 26 days · 4,659 km
S. Pillay
Viti Levu and Naitasiri · Jun – Jul 1960
S. Pillay in Viti Levu and Naitasiri, June – July 196040 specimens · 8 stops · 49 days
Harry S. Ladd
Viti Levu · Jul – Aug 1926
Harry S. Ladd in Viti Levu, July – August 192658 specimens · 3 stops · 12 days · 2,114 km
Giffen
Guadalcanal and Viti Levu · Nov 1947 – Jan 1948
Giffen in Guadalcanal and Viti Levu, November 1947 – January 194855 specimens · 8 stops · 39 days
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
3 islands · Feb – Apr 1985
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss in Guadalcanal, Viti Levu and Ghizo, February – April 198550 specimens · 4 stops · 50 days · 1,277 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.