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, 1966 to 1995, 1,406 specimens between them.
8 collectors and expeditions239 days in the field76,802 km between stops412 photographed specimens
10 journeys match
John L. Earle
18 islands · Sep – Dec 1993
John L. Earle across 18 islands, September – December 1993336 specimens · 27 stops · 81 days · 26,222 km
John Q. Burch or John B. Burch
11 islands · Sep – Nov 1966
John Q. Burch or John B. Burch across 11 islands, September – November 1966264 specimens · 12 stops · 52 days · 1,201 km
Johnson Randall
20 islands · Aug – Dec 1993
Johnson Randall across 20 islands, August – December 1993214 specimens · 31 stops · 114 days · 29,910 km
J.R. Croft
3 islands of Papua New Guinea · Nov – Dec 1976
J.R. Croft in Fergusson Island, Normanby Island and Fergusson Island., November – December 1976149 specimens · 8 stops · 39 days · 605 km
Gerald R. Allen
17 islands of Australia · Nov 1971 – Jul 1972
Gerald R. Allen across 17 islands of Australia, November 1971 – July 1972122 specimens · 56 stops · 244 days · 3,375 km
Y. Lelean
8 islands of Papua New Guinea · 2–27 Oct 1971
Y. Lelean across 8 islands of Papua New Guinea, 2–27 October 197146 specimens · 8 stops · 26 days · 1,028 km
John L. Earle
6 islands of Papua New Guinea · Nov – Dec 1995
John L. Earle across 6 islands of Papua New Guinea, November – December 199589 specimens · 7 stops · 37 days · 6,860 km
Johnson Randall
7 islands of Papua New Guinea · Nov – Dec 1995
Johnson Randall across 7 islands of Papua New Guinea, November – December 199574 specimens · 8 stops · 33 days · 7,022 km
Heinar Streimann
7 islands of Papua New Guinea · 21–27 Oct 1971
Heinar Streimann across 7 islands of Papua New Guinea, 21–27 October 197149 specimens · 7 stops · 7 days · 379 km
Richard L. Pyle
4 islands of Papua New Guinea · 3–16 Dec 1995
Richard L. Pyle across 4 islands of Papua New Guinea, 3–16 December 199563 specimens · 7 stops · 14 days · 200 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.