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. 27 journeys so far, 1913 to 2005, 4,657 specimens between them.
23 collectors and expeditions305 days in the field57,401 km between stops3,966 photographed specimens
27 journeys match
Robert Hobdy
3 islands of the United States · 11–20 Feb 1984
Robert Hobdy in Kahoʻolawe, Lānaʻi and Molokaʻi, 11–20 February 198443 specimens · 6 stops · 10 days · 249 km
Skippy Hau
Kahoʻolawe · 1–10 Sep 1992
Skippy Hau in Kahoʻolawe, 1–10 September 199251 specimens · 3 stops · 10 days
M. LeGrande
3 islands of the United States · Feb – Mar 2003
M. LeGrande in Niʻihau, Lānaʻi and Kahoʻolawe, February – March 200349 specimens · 3 stops · 32 days · 441 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.