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. 7 journeys so far, 2008 to 2009, 345 specimens between them.
7 collectors and expeditions57 days in the field3,702 km between stops283 photographed specimens
7 journeys match
T. Watanabe
5 islands of the Solomon Islands · Dec 2008 – Feb 2009
T. Watanabe across 5 islands of the Solomon Islands, December 2008 – February 200973 specimens · 14 stops · 45 days · 1,608 km
M.F. Gardner
3 islands of the Solomon Islands · 4–18 Oct 2008
M.F. Gardner in Santa Isabel, Choiseul and Kolombangara, 4–18 October 200847 specimens · 6 stops · 15 days · 349 km
F. Pitisopa
3 islands of the Solomon Islands · 4–18 Oct 2008
F. Pitisopa in Santa Isabel, Choiseul and Kolombangara, 4–18 October 200847 specimens · 6 stops · 15 days · 349 km
S. Herrington
3 islands of the Solomon Islands · 4–18 Oct 2008
S. Herrington in Santa Isabel, Choiseul and Kolombangara, 4–18 October 200846 specimens · 6 stops · 15 days · 349 km
P. Tofu
3 islands of the Solomon Islands · 4–18 Oct 2008
P. Tofu in Santa Isabel, Choiseul and Kolombangara, 4–18 October 200844 specimens · 6 stops · 15 days · 349 km
P. Kosui
3 islands of the Solomon Islands · 4–18 Oct 2008
P. Kosui in Santa Isabel, Choiseul and Kolombangara, 4–18 October 200844 specimens · 6 stops · 15 days · 349 km
R. Olisae
3 islands of the Solomon Islands · 4–18 Oct 2008
R. Olisae in Santa Isabel, Choiseul and Kolombangara, 4–18 October 200844 specimens · 6 stops · 15 days · 349 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.