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, 1964 to 1981, 582 specimens between them.
5 collectors and expeditions168 days in the field9,897 km between stops333 photographed specimens
5 journeys match
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
13 islands · Feb – Jun 1966
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 13 islands, February – June 1966155 specimens · 40 stops · 141 days · 4,507 km
R. Schodde
3 islands of Papua New Guinea · Jul – Sep 1964
R. Schodde in Bougainville Island, Bougainville and Bougainville Islands, July – September 1964122 specimens · 43 stops · 70 days · 334 km
L.A.C. Craven
4 islands of Papua New Guinea · Jul – Sep 1964
L.A.C. Craven across 4 islands of Papua New Guinea, July – September 1964116 specimens · 43 stops · 85 days · 1,230 km
D. Mueller-Dombois
12 islands · Oct – Dec 1981
D. Mueller-Dombois across 12 islands, October – December 1981139 specimens · 18 stops · 53 days · 3,711 km
Donald Bruce Foreman
Bougainville Island and Bougainville · Aug – Sep 1969
Donald Bruce Foreman in Bougainville Island and Bougainville, August – September 196950 specimens · 5 stops · 25 days · 115 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.