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. 3 journeys so far, 1978 to 2000, 1,408 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions130 days in the field19,749 km between stops
3 journeys match
Johnson Randall
12 islands · Jun – Sep 1978
Johnson Randall across 12 islands, June – September 1978840 specimens · 52 stops · 92 days · 8,104 km
Johnson Randall
11 islands · Aug – Oct 1988
Johnson Randall across 11 islands, August – October 1988522 specimens · 31 stops · 72 days · 5,627 km
Johnson Randall
7 islands of Indonesia · Sep – Oct 2000
Johnson Randall across 7 islands of Indonesia, September – October 200046 specimens · 21 stops · 55 days · 6,018 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.