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, 2007 to 2008, 455 specimens between them.
5 collectors and expeditions78 days in the field23,625 km between stops381 photographed specimens
6 journeys match
Steven Perlman
9 islands · Sep – Dec 2008
Steven Perlman across 9 islands, September – December 2008122 specimens · 20 stops · 81 days · 10,371 km
Steven Perlman
10 islands · Dec 2007 – Feb 2008
Steven Perlman across 10 islands, December 2007 – February 200883 specimens · 18 stops · 53 days · 7,666 km
W. Law
10 islands · Jan – Feb 2008
W. Law across 10 islands, January – February 200876 specimens · 9 stops · 24 days · 139 km
C.B. Lewis
6 islands · Sep – Oct 2008
C.B. Lewis across 6 islands, September – October 200854 specimens · 9 stops · 12 days · 2,618 km
David H. Lorence
9 islands · 15–26 Jan 2008
David H. Lorence across 9 islands, 15–26 January 200874 specimens · 6 stops · 12 days · 213 km
C.R. Jones
6 islands · Sep – Oct 2008
C.R. Jones across 6 islands, September – October 200846 specimens · 8 stops · 12 days · 2,618 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.