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. 7 journeys so far, 1955 to 1967, 545 specimens between them.
6 collectors and expeditions233 days in the field125,236 km between stops16 photographed specimens
7 journeys match
station
16 islands · Jul – Dec 1955
station, July – December 1955196 specimens · 82 stops · 144 days · 48,394 km
V Hugh M. Smith cruise 31
7 islands · Sep – Dec 1955
V Hugh M. Smith cruise 31, September – December 195583 specimens · 41 stops · 72 days · 17,808 km
station
17 islands · Aug – Dec 1956
station, August – December 195676 specimens · 33 stops · 130 days · 25,742 km
Dennis M. Devaney
16 islands · Sep – Oct 1967
Dennis M. Devaney across 16 islands, September – October 196750 specimens · 18 stops · 56 days · 7,816 km
V Hugh M. Smith cruise 35
12 islands · Aug – Sep 1956
V Hugh M. Smith cruise 35, August – September 195650 specimens · 25 stops · 60 days · 13,190 km
V. Pele
9 islands of French Polynesia · Sep – Oct 1967
V. Pele across 9 islands of French Polynesia, September – October 196745 specimens · 11 stops · 50 days · 6,143 km
Crew of R
9 islands of French Polynesia · Sep – Oct 1967
Crew of R, September – October 196745 specimens · 11 stops · 50 days · 6,143 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.