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. 6 journeys so far, 1948 to 2015, 424 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions61 days in the field17,630 km between stops416 photographed specimens
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Journeys with photographed specimens6 journeys match
James E. Norton
Jan – May 1964
James E. Norton, January – May 196458 specimens · 25 stops · 106 days
James A. Kwon
Rota and Guam · Jul – Aug 2012
James A. Kwon in Rota and Guam, July – August 201263 specimens · 10 stops · 10 days · 16,939 km
James Lester Allen
Oʻahu · Jul – Aug 1948
James Lester Allen in Oʻahu, July – August 194855 specimens · 7 stops · 48 days · 420 km
S.A. James
New Britain · 10–18 May 2011
S.A. James in New Britain, 10–18 May 2011118 specimens · 2 stops · 9 days · 41 km
S.A. James
Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu · 5–18 Aug 2004
S.A. James in Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, 5–18 August 200482 specimens · 2 stops · 14 days · 230 km
S.A. James
Guadalcanal · 11–17 Sep 2015
S.A. James in Guadalcanal, 11–17 September 201548 specimens · 5 stops · 7 days
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.