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. 35 journeys so far, 1921 to 2002, 51,782 specimens between them.
33 collectors and expeditions1,445 days in the field256,314 km between stops45,252 photographed specimens
35 journeys match
Mangarevan Expedition
29 islands · May – Nov 1934
Mangarevan Expedition, May – November 193415,215 specimens · 33 stops · 173 days · 12,849 km
Donald Anderson
34 islands · Apr – Oct 1934
Donald Anderson across 34 islands, April – October 19348,872 specimens · 35 stops · 202 days · 16,221 km
Yoshio Kondo
16 islands · May – Oct 1934
Yoshio Kondo across 16 islands, May – October 19344,915 specimens · 25 stops · 146 days · 6,036 km
Clarence H. Cooke Jr.
26 islands · Apr – Oct 1934
Clarence H. Cooke Jr. across 26 islands, April – October 19343,369 specimens · 39 stops · 184 days · 14,736 km
Charles Montague Cooke Jr. III
17 islands · May – Oct 1934
Charles Montague Cooke Jr. III across 17 islands, May – October 19343,597 specimens · 25 stops · 140 days · 5,629 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
32 islands · Apr – Oct 1934
F. Raymond Fosberg across 32 islands, April – October 19342,503 specimens · 85 stops · 201 days · 23,387 km
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
21 islands · Feb – Oct 1934
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman across 21 islands, February – October 19341,714 specimens · 56 stops · 248 days · 12,587 km
Johnson Randall
27 islands · Dec 1970 – May 1971
Johnson Randall across 27 islands, December 1970 – May 19712,367 specimens · 98 stops · 175 days · 9,120 km
Dean B. Cannoy
23 islands · Dec 1970 – May 1971
Dean B. Cannoy across 23 islands, December 1970 – May 19711,582 specimens · 82 stops · 159 days · 7,718 km
Elwood C. Zimmerman
12 islands · May – Oct 1934
Elwood C. Zimmerman across 12 islands, May – October 19341,001 specimens · 14 stops · 140 days · 5,332 km
Samuel Wight
16 islands of French Polynesia · May – Oct 1934
Samuel Wight across 16 islands of French Polynesia, May – October 1934733 specimens · 24 stops · 156 days · 7,021 km
Mangarevan Expedition
9 islands · Jun – Oct 1934
Mangarevan Expedition, June – October 1934813 specimens · 13 stops · 114 days · 3,809 km
Fosberg F. Raymond
14 islands · May – Oct 1934
Fosberg F. Raymond across 14 islands, May – October 1934693 specimens · 14 stops · 144 days · 6,414 km
St. John Harold
12 islands · May – Oct 1934
St. John Harold across 12 islands, May – October 1934636 specimens · 13 stops · 142 days · 4,628 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
8 islands · Jul – Oct 1934
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 8 islands, July – October 1934620 specimens · 10 stops · 91 days · 1,948 km
Anderson
9 islands of French Polynesia · Jul – Oct 1934
Anderson across 9 islands of French Polynesia, July – October 1934419 specimens · 12 stops · 91 days · 2,313 km
Jacques Florence
4 islands of French Polynesia · Oct 1983 – Mar 1984
Jacques Florence across 4 islands of French Polynesia, October 1983 – March 1984556 specimens · 12 stops · 133 days · 8,247 km
Jean Maireau
3 islands · Jun – Jul 1934
Jean Maireau in Rapa, Karapo Rahi and Pitcairn Island, June – July 1934345 specimens · 20 stops · 55 days · 2,910 km
Stokes
Rapa · Jun – Oct 1921
Stokes in Rapa, June – October 1921174 specimens · 12 stops · 143 days · 1,215 km
Mrs. J.F.G. Stokes
Rapa · Jun – Oct 1921
Mrs. J.F.G. Stokes in Rapa, June – October 1921171 specimens · 9 stops · 143 days · 946 km
John Francis Gray Stokes
Rapa and Rapaq · Jul – Nov 1921
John Francis Gray Stokes in Rapa and Rapaq, July – November 1921149 specimens · 21 stops · 116 days
J.C. Chapin
15 islands · Oct 1934 – Jan 1935
J.C. Chapin across 15 islands, October 1934 – January 1935125 specimens · 26 stops · 107 days · 13,508 km
Jacques Florence
4 islands of French Polynesia · Apr – Jun 1984
Jacques Florence across 4 islands of French Polynesia, April – June 1984147 specimens · 7 stops · 63 days · 9,717 km
Steven Perlman
Rapa and Kauaʻi · Feb – Apr 2002
Steven Perlman in Rapa and Kauaʻi, February – April 2002148 specimens · 7 stops · 53 days · 6,345 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.