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. 3 journeys so far, 1934 to 2013, 16,068 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions166 days in the field16,658 km between stops16,068 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
Mangarevan Expedition
29 islands · May – Nov 1934
Mangarevan Expedition, May – November 193415,215 specimens · 33 stops · 173 days · 12,849 km
Mangarevan Expedition
9 islands · Jun – Oct 1934
Mangarevan Expedition, June – October 1934813 specimens · 13 stops · 114 days · 3,809 km
L.S. Mang
Myanmar and Myanmur · Jun – Jul 2013
L.S. Mang in Myanmar and Myanmur, June – July 201340 specimens · 14 stops · 46 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.