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. 6 journeys so far, 1920 to 2008, 1,704 specimens between them.
6 collectors and expeditions101 days in the field23,354 km between stops682 photographed specimens
6 journeys match
K.N. Page
10 islands · Jan – Feb 2004
K.N. Page across 10 islands, January – February 2004679 specimens · 8 stops · 45 days · 4,821 km
A.D. Tribollet
3 islands · Mar – Apr 2006
A.D. Tribollet in Kingman Reef, Jarvis Island and Rose Atoll, March – April 2006546 specimens · 4 stops · 31 days · 5,032 km
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William A. Setchell
3 islands · Jun – Jul 1920
William A. Setchell in Tutuila, Aunuu and Rose Atoll, June – July 1920175 specimens · 32 stops · 51 days · 21 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
14 islands · Jul – Sep 1938
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. across 14 islands, July – September 1938131 specimens · 17 stops · 49 days · 11,700 km
S.W. Cooper
5 islands of American Samoa · Feb – Mar 2008
S.W. Cooper across 5 islands of American Samoa, February – March 2008101 specimens · 7 stops · 25 days · 760 km
L.B. Preskitt
Rose Atoll and Swains Island · 11–26 Feb 2002
L.B. Preskitt in Rose Atoll and Swains Island, 11–26 February 200272 specimens · 7 stops · 16 days · 1,020 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.