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. 10 journeys so far, 1959 to 2009, 1,080 specimens between them.
9 collectors and expeditions214 days in the field16,460 km between stops519 photographed specimens
10 journeys match
A. Bailey
7 islands of the Solomon Islands · Jul – Oct 1965
A. Bailey across 7 islands of the Solomon Islands, July – October 1965208 specimens · 37 stops · 123 days · 1,149 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
13 islands · Feb – Jun 1966
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 13 islands, February – June 1966155 specimens · 40 stops · 141 days · 4,507 km
H.B.S. Womersley
5 islands of the Solomon Islands · Aug – Sep 1965
H.B.S. Womersley across 5 islands of the Solomon Islands, August – September 1965129 specimens · 16 stops · 36 days · 277 km
T. Watanabe
7 islands · Jul – Aug 2009
T. Watanabe across 7 islands, July – August 2009138 specimens · 11 stops · 40 days · 1,464 km
D. Mueller-Dombois
12 islands · Oct – Dec 1981
D. Mueller-Dombois across 12 islands, October – December 1981139 specimens · 18 stops · 53 days · 3,711 km
T. Watanabe
6 islands of the Solomon Islands · Jul – Sep 2008
T. Watanabe across 6 islands of the Solomon Islands, July – September 2008128 specimens · 9 stops · 41 days · 638 km
Judson Linsley Gressitt
4 islands · May – Jul 1959
Judson Linsley Gressitt across 4 islands, May – July 195951 specimens · 14 stops · 64 days · 2,073 km
K. Sugimura
6 islands of the Solomon Islands · Jul – Aug 2009
K. Sugimura across 6 islands of the Solomon Islands, July – August 200951 specimens · 8 stops · 31 days · 1,011 km
J.C. Regalado Jr.
3 islands of the Solomon Islands · Jul – Aug 1993
J.C. Regalado Jr. in Guadalcanal, Kolombangara and New Georgia, July – August 199341 specimens · 6 stops · 31 days · 815 km
M.Q. Sirikolo
3 islands of the Solomon Islands · Jul – Aug 1993
M.Q. Sirikolo in Guadalcanal, Kolombangara and New Georgia, July – August 199340 specimens · 6 stops · 31 days · 815 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.