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. 9 journeys so far, 1983 to 2022, 881 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions100 days in the field47,615 km between stops614 photographed specimens
9 journeys match
Timothy Flynn
Maui · Sep – Nov 1987
Timothy Flynn in Maui, September – November 1987250 specimens · 18 stops · 65 days · 80 km
Timothy Flynn
Savaii and Upolu · Jun – Jul 2016
Timothy Flynn in Savaii and Upolu, June – July 2016135 specimens · 17 stops · 31 days · 160 km
Timothy Flynn
8 islands · Jun – Jul 2022
Timothy Flynn across 8 islands, June – July 2022102 specimens · 12 stops · 18 days
Timothy Flynn
6 islands of the Cook Islands · 12–29 Mar 2002
Timothy Flynn across 6 islands of the Cook Islands, 12–29 March 2002110 specimens · 11 stops · 18 days · 2,765 km
Timothy Flynn
Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu · Feb – Mar 1984
Timothy Flynn in Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, February – March 198479 specimens · 6 stops · 30 days · 230 km
Timothy Flynn
Kosrae and Pohnpei · 1–20 Dec 1996
Timothy Flynn in Kosrae and Pohnpei, 1–20 December 199665 specimens · 7 stops · 20 days · 39,978 km
Timothy Flynn
Maui and Molokaʻi · 14–19 Jan 2020
Timothy Flynn in Maui and Molokaʻi, 14–19 January 202053 specimens · 5 stops · 6 days · 102 km
Timothy Flynn
Hawaiʻi Island and Maui · 24–28 Jul 1983
Timothy Flynn in Hawaiʻi Island and Maui, 24–28 July 198344 specimens · 4 stops · 5 days
Timothy Flynn
3 islands · Oct – Nov 1989
Timothy Flynn in Upolu, Savaii and Maui, October – November 198943 specimens · 7 stops · 13 days · 4,300 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.