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. 28 journeys so far, 1931 to 2010, 9,251 specimens between them.
23 collectors and expeditions720 days in the field382,126 km between stops4,688 photographed specimens
28 journeys match
V Townsend Cromwell cruise 53
10 islands · Apr – Jun 1971
V Townsend Cromwell cruise 53, April – June 197146 specimens · 10 stops · 57 days · 5,591 km
station
10 islands · Apr – Jun 1971
station, April – June 197146 specimens · 10 stops · 57 days · 5,591 km
R. Kanehira
6 islands · Jun – Jul 1931
R. Kanehira across 6 islands, June – July 193153 specimens · 2 stops · 8 days
Diane Ragone
Kosrae and Pohnpei · 2–20 Dec 1996
Diane Ragone in Kosrae and Pohnpei, 2–20 December 199640 specimens · 4 stops · 19 days · 1,228 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.