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. 90 journeys so far, 1900 to 2004, 65,732 specimens between them.
56 collectors and expeditions3,009 days in the field819,222 km between stops49,841 photographed specimens
90 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
Laurence H. MacDaniels
12 islands · Oct 1926 – Jul 1927
Laurence H. MacDaniels across 12 islands, October 1926 – July 19272,144 specimens · 105 stops · 274 days · 40,135 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
Johnson Randall
25 islands · Mar – Dec 1968
Johnson Randall across 25 islands, March – December 19681,676 specimens · 99 stops · 261 days · 106,577 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
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Gerrit Parmele Wilder
4 islands · Feb – Sep 1929
Gerrit Parmele Wilder across 4 islands, February – September 1929605 specimens · 77 stops · 205 days · 5,048 km
Ernest H. Quayle
25 islands · Jun – Nov 1922
Ernest H. Quayle across 25 islands, June – November 1922642 specimens · 56 stops · 162 days · 7,539 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
Grady L. Webster
10 islands · Jun – Sep 1968
Grady L. Webster across 10 islands, June – September 1968510 specimens · 60 stops · 111 days · 38,525 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
F. Raymond Fosberg
6 islands · May – Jul 1982
F. Raymond Fosberg across 6 islands, May – July 1982691 specimens · 46 stops · 88 days · 10,015 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
Truman George Yuncker
6 islands · Sep – Dec 1939
Truman George Yuncker across 6 islands, September – December 1939573 specimens · 26 stops · 81 days · 2,624 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
Johnson Randall
6 islands of Chile · Jan – Mar 1969
Johnson Randall across 6 islands of Chile, January – March 1969503 specimens · 38 stops · 78 days · 8,647 km
Betsy H. Gagne
11 islands · Jun – Sep 1977
Betsy H. Gagne across 11 islands, June – September 1977480 specimens · 22 stops · 84 days · 12,628 km
B.G. Decker
8 islands · Jan – Jun 1964
B.G. Decker across 8 islands, January – June 1964346 specimens · 39 stops · 147 days · 2,052 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.