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. 6 journeys so far, 1960 to 2010, 3,738 specimens between them.
6 collectors and expeditions196 days in the field88,379 km between stops2,466 photographed specimens
6 journeys match
Ernani Meñez
50 islands · Jun – Sep 1960
Ernani Meñez across 50 islands, June – September 19602,317 specimens · 38 stops · 100 days · 40,857 km
R.L. Stemmermann
28 islands · Nov 1977 – Feb 1978
R.L. Stemmermann across 28 islands, November 1977 – February 1978620 specimens · 70 stops · 102 days · 20,526 km
H.A. Miller
26 islands · Jun – Aug 1960
H.A. Miller across 26 islands, June – August 1960410 specimens · 37 stops · 90 days · 20,099 km
H.O. Whittier
21 islands · Jun – Aug 1960
H.O. Whittier across 21 islands, June – August 1960310 specimens · 20 stops · 77 days · 1,577 km
Kenneth R. Wood
Kosrae and Kosrae (=Kusaie) · Jan – Feb 2010
Kenneth R. Wood in Kosrae and Kosrae (=Kusaie), January – February 201041 specimens · 8 stops · 11 days · 2,660 km
W. Law
Kosrae and Kosrae (=Kusaie) · Jan – Feb 2010
W. Law in Kosrae and Kosrae (=Kusaie), January – February 201040 specimens · 7 stops · 11 days · 2,660 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.