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. 29 journeys so far, 1874 to 1983, 6,494 specimens between them.
25 collectors and expeditions737 days in the field610,591 km between stops5,499 photographed specimens
29 journeys match
E.J. Godley
4 islands of New Zealand · 6–18 Mar 1962
E.J. Godley across 4 islands of New Zealand, 6–18 March 196260 specimens · 8 stops · 13 days
W.M. Hamilton
3 islands of New Zealand · 5–16 Mar 1962
W.M. Hamilton in Little Barrier, New Zealand and North Island, 5–16 March 196261 specimens · 8 stops · 12 days
L. Visch
3 islands of New Zealand · Dec 1972 – Feb 1973
L. Visch in South Island, New Zealand and North Island, December 1972 – February 197345 specimens · 9 stops · 52 days · 4,993 km
R.G. Buggeln
4 islands · 17–26 Aug 1965
R.G. Buggeln across 4 islands, 17–26 August 1965118 specimens · 6 stops · 10 days · 37,588 km
Sven Berggren
3 islands of New Zealand · 1–7 Feb 1874
Sven Berggren in South Island, New Zealand and North Island, 1–7 February 187456 specimens · 3 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.