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. 56 journeys so far, 1921 to 1995, 54,910 specimens between them.
40 collectors and expeditions1,829 days in the field472,605 km between stops46,111 photographed specimens
56 journeys match
Hugh Shaw MacKee
9 islands · Jul – Sep 1955
Hugh Shaw MacKee across 9 islands, July – September 1955222 specimens · 28 stops · 64 days · 5,455 km
Johnson Randall
9 islands · Jul – Oct 1967
Johnson Randall across 9 islands, July – October 1967303 specimens · 29 stops · 95 days · 2,620 km
Alastair M. Adamson
Tahiti and Moorea · Oct – Dec 1928
Alastair M. Adamson in Tahiti and Moorea, October – December 1928203 specimens · 15 stops · 49 days · 153 km
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Steven L. Montgomery
9 islands of French Polynesia · Jul – Oct 1988
Steven L. Montgomery across 9 islands of French Polynesia, July – October 1988277 specimens · 18 stops · 73 days · 10,669 km
Betsy H. Gagne
7 islands of French Polynesia · Jul – Sep 1988
Betsy H. Gagne across 7 islands of French Polynesia, July – September 1988267 specimens · 15 stops · 68 days · 10,816 km
H.O. Whittier
3 islands of French Polynesia · Sep – Nov 1964
H.O. Whittier in Tahiti, Moorea and Taiarapu, September – November 1964131 specimens · 23 stops · 75 days · 43 km
Charles Montague Cooke Jr. 7 Others
3 islands · Sep – Oct 1934
Charles Montague Cooke Jr. 7 Others in Raiatea, Moorea and Tahiti, September – October 1934311 specimens · 3 stops · 18 days · 225 km
Jacques Florence
6 islands of French Polynesia · Nov – Dec 1982
Jacques Florence across 6 islands of French Polynesia, November – December 1982276 specimens · 8 stops · 47 days · 3,804 km
van Royen
3 islands · Jun – Sep 1967
van Royen in Oʻahu, Kauaʻi and Moorea, June – September 1967147 specimens · 11 stops · 80 days · 8,799 km
Jan Newhouse
3 islands of French Polynesia · 2–24 Aug 1967
Jan Newhouse in Tahiti, Bora Bora and Moorea, 2–24 August 1967139 specimens · 18 stops · 23 days · 941 km
J. Raynal
7 islands · Jun – Aug 1973
J. Raynal across 7 islands, June – August 1973117 specimens · 29 stops · 79 days · 4,474 km
Edwin Smith
Moorea · Jun – Aug 1967
Edwin Smith in Moorea, June – August 1967147 specimens · 26 stops · 69 days
Kohndo Gessler
4 islands · Sep – Oct 1934
Kohndo Gessler across 4 islands, September – October 1934181 specimens · 5 stops · 34 days · 240 km
M.-H Sachet
5 islands of French Polynesia · Jun – Jul 1982
M.-H Sachet across 5 islands of French Polynesia, June – July 1982169 specimens · 12 stops · 28 days · 297 km
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Gerrit Parmele Wilder
3 islands · Jul – Dec 1926
Gerrit Parmele Wilder in Moorea, Tahiti and Penrhyn Atoll, July – December 192677 specimens · 29 stops · 145 days · 451 km
Gerrit Parmele Wilder
5 islands · Mar – Aug 1927
Gerrit Parmele Wilder across 5 islands, March – August 192769 specimens · 28 stops · 155 days · 13,558 km
Jacques Florence
Nuku Hiva and Moorea · Jul – Aug 1987
Jacques Florence in Nuku Hiva and Moorea, July – August 1987128 specimens · 11 stops · 62 days · 4,316 km
P.H. Birnbaum
4 islands of French Polynesia · Sep – Nov 1988
P.H. Birnbaum across 4 islands of French Polynesia, September – November 1988110 specimens · 13 stops · 79 days · 698 km
Johnson Randall
5 islands · Feb – May 1956
Johnson Randall across 5 islands, February – May 1956111 specimens · 14 stops · 108 days · 128 km
Johnson Randall
9 islands of French Polynesia · Feb – Jul 1957
Johnson Randall across 9 islands of French Polynesia, February – July 195786 specimens · 22 stops · 146 days · 1,617 km
Alex B. Anderson
3 islands · Sep – Oct 1934
Alex B. Anderson in Raiatea, Moorea and Taha'A, September – October 1934126 specimens · 3 stops · 17 days · 211 km
Jacques Florence
Moorea and Makatea · Dec 1981 – Jan 1982
Jacques Florence in Moorea and Makatea, December 1981 – January 1982114 specimens · 6 stops · 22 days · 282 km
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
7 islands · Jan – Mar 1960
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 7 islands, January – March 196057 specimens · 7 stops · 58 days · 16,910 km
C. Cartier
Moorea and Motu Ahi · 19–25 Jun 1991
C. Cartier in Moorea and Motu Ahi, 19–25 June 1991113 specimens · 5 stops · 7 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.