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, 1962 to 2003, 384 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions29 days in the field7,145 km between stops144 photographed specimens
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Journeys with photographed specimens3 journeys match
C.T. Imada
4 islands of Kiribati · Aug – Sep 2003
C.T. Imada across 4 islands of Kiribati, August – September 2003170 specimens · 8 stops · 20 days · 789 km
Jim Space
4 islands of Kiribati · Aug – Sep 2003
Jim Space across 4 islands of Kiribati, August – September 2003157 specimens · 8 stops · 20 days · 790 km
J. Cooper
7 islands · Jul – Aug 1962
J. Cooper across 7 islands, July – August 196257 specimens · 3 stops · 32 days · 5,566 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.