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, 1973 to 1989, 689 specimens between them.
2 collectors and expeditions89 days in the field5,867 km between stops629 photographed specimens
5 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
J.R. Croft
3 islands of Papua New Guinea · May – Jun 1973
J.R. Croft in New Britain, Ott Island and Kakolan, May – June 1973185 specimens · 9 stops · 38 days · 542 km
J.R. Croft
3 islands of Papua New Guinea · Nov – Dec 1976
J.R. Croft in Fergusson Island, Normanby Island and Fergusson Island., November – December 1976149 specimens · 8 stops · 39 days · 605 km
L.K. Croft
Hawaiʻi Island · Jun – Aug 1977
L.K. Croft in Hawaiʻi Island, June – August 1977123 specimens · 7 stops · 56 days
J.R. Croft
Tasmania · 14–25 Feb 1989
J.R. Croft in Tasmania, 14–25 February 198980 specimens · 9 stops · 12 days · 374 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.