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. 33 journeys so far, 1903 to 2015, 5,815 specimens between them.
29 collectors and expeditions840 days in the field155,252 km between stops1,978 photographed specimens
33 journeys match
K. Sugimura
6 islands of the Solomon Islands · Jul – Aug 2009
K. Sugimura across 6 islands of the Solomon Islands, July – August 200951 specimens · 8 stops · 31 days · 1,011 km
L. Goldman
4 islands of the Solomon Islands · 18–31 Jul 1973
L. Goldman across 4 islands of the Solomon Islands, 18–31 July 197380 specimens · 7 stops · 14 days · 43 km
Giffen
Guadalcanal and Viti Levu · Nov 1947 – Jan 1948
Giffen in Guadalcanal and Viti Levu, November 1947 – January 194855 specimens · 8 stops · 39 days
S.A. James
Guadalcanal · 11–17 Sep 2015
S.A. James in Guadalcanal, 11–17 September 201548 specimens · 5 stops · 7 days
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
3 islands · Feb – Apr 1985
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss in Guadalcanal, Viti Levu and Ghizo, February – April 198550 specimens · 4 stops · 50 days · 1,277 km
J.C. Regalado Jr.
3 islands of the Solomon Islands · Jul – Aug 1993
J.C. Regalado Jr. in Guadalcanal, Kolombangara and New Georgia, July – August 199341 specimens · 6 stops · 31 days · 815 km
M.Q. Sirikolo
3 islands of the Solomon Islands · Jul – Aug 1993
M.Q. Sirikolo in Guadalcanal, Kolombangara and New Georgia, July – August 199340 specimens · 6 stops · 31 days · 815 km
S. Gale
Malaita and Guadalcanal · 5–11 Sep 2007
S. Gale in Malaita and Guadalcanal, 5–11 September 200742 specimens · 5 stops · 7 days · 186 km
Mike McCoy
Guadalcanal · 7–31 Jul 1973
Mike McCoy in Guadalcanal, 7–31 July 197356 specimens · 2 stops · 25 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.