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. 10 journeys so far, 1916 to 1986, 3,927 specimens between them.
8 collectors and expeditions306 days in the field56,406 km between stops1,675 photographed specimens
10 journeys match
F. Raymond Fosberg
32 islands · Apr – Oct 1934
F. Raymond Fosberg across 32 islands, April – October 19342,503 specimens · 85 stops · 201 days · 23,387 km
Johnson Randall
6 islands of Chile · Jan – Mar 1969
Johnson Randall across 6 islands of Chile, January – March 1969503 specimens · 38 stops · 78 days · 8,647 km
Carl Skottsberg
7 islands of Chile · Nov 1916 – May 1917
Carl Skottsberg across 7 islands of Chile, November 1916 – May 1917122 specimens · 59 stops · 174 days
Gerald R. Allen
5 islands · Jan – May 1969
Gerald R. Allen across 5 islands, January – May 1969248 specimens · 25 stops · 109 days · 10,864 km
J.C. Chapin
15 islands · Oct 1934 – Jan 1935
J.C. Chapin across 15 islands, October 1934 – January 1935125 specimens · 26 stops · 107 days · 13,508 km
Johnson Randall
Easter Island and Bonaire · 4–22 Feb 1985
Johnson Randall in Easter Island and Bonaire, 4–22 February 1985112 specimens · 10 stops · 19 days
Johnson Randall
Easter Island and Tahiti · Jan – Feb 1986
Johnson Randall in Easter Island and Tahiti, January – February 198690 specimens · 12 stops · 21 days
B.A. Baker
Easter Island and Tahiti · Jan – Feb 1969
B.A. Baker in Easter Island and Tahiti, January – February 196993 specimens · 6 stops · 33 days
John L. Earle
Easter Island and Tahiti · Jan – Feb 1986
John L. Earle in Easter Island and Tahiti, January – February 198667 specimens · 6 stops · 14 days
Alfredo Cea Egaña
Easter Island · 10–15 Feb 1985
Alfredo Cea Egaña in Easter Island, 10–15 February 198564 specimens · 2 stops · 6 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.