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. 2 journeys so far, 1973 to 1985, 275 specimens between them.
2 collectors and expeditions54 days in the field4,474 km between stops124 photographed specimens
2 journeys match
J. Raynal
7 islands · Jun – Aug 1973
J. Raynal across 7 islands, June – August 1973117 specimens · 29 stops · 79 days · 4,474 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
3 islands of French Polynesia · Aug – Sep 1985
F. Raymond Fosberg in Maupiti Island, Tahiti and Maupiti, August – September 1985158 specimens · 22 stops · 27 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.