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. 4 journeys so far, 1992 to 1993, 317 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions42 days in the field2,864 km between stops
4 journeys match
Johnson Randall
15 islands of Oman · Dec 1992 – Feb 1993
Johnson Randall across 15 islands of Oman, December 1992 – February 1993178 specimens · 21 stops · 71 days · 2,300 km
J. van Egmond
7 islands · Dec 1992 – Jan 1993
J. van Egmond across 7 islands, December 1992 – January 199347 specimens · 8 stops · 16 days
J. van der Land
8 islands of the Seychelles · Dec 1992 – Jan 1993
J. van der Land across 8 islands of the Seychelles, December 1992 – January 199342 specimens · 7 stops · 15 days · 564 km
E. Grandcourt
4 islands · Dec 1992 – Jan 1993
E. Grandcourt across 4 islands, December 1992 – January 199350 specimens · 4 stops · 14 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.