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
J. Raynal
7 islands · Jun – Aug 1973
J. Raynal across 7 islands, June – August 1973117 specimens · 29 stops · 79 days · 4,474 km
Johnson Randall
3 islands of the United States · Oct – Dec 1967
Johnson Randall in Enewetak Atoll, Oʻahu and Tahiti, October – December 1967238 specimens · 14 stops · 40 days · 20,674 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
3 islands of French Polynesia · Aug – Sep 1985
F. Raymond Fosberg in Maupiti Island, Tahiti and Maupiti, August – September 1985158 specimens · 22 stops · 27 days
M.-H Sachet
5 islands of French Polynesia · Jun – Jul 1982
M.-H Sachet across 5 islands of French Polynesia, June – July 1982169 specimens · 12 stops · 28 days · 297 km
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Gerrit Parmele Wilder
3 islands · Jul – Dec 1926
Gerrit Parmele Wilder in Moorea, Tahiti and Penrhyn Atoll, July – December 192677 specimens · 29 stops · 145 days · 451 km
J. Raynal
9 islands · Jun – Oct 1971
J. Raynal across 9 islands, June – October 1971106 specimens · 42 stops · 103 days · 21,113 km
G.W. Gillett
4 islands · Jul – Sep 1970
G.W. Gillett across 4 islands, July – September 197094 specimens · 13 stops · 74 days · 5,743 km
Gerrit Parmele Wilder
5 islands · Mar – Aug 1927
Gerrit Parmele Wilder across 5 islands, March – August 192769 specimens · 28 stops · 155 days · 13,558 km
Jan Newhouse
5 islands · Jul – Aug 1968
Jan Newhouse across 5 islands, July – August 196898 specimens · 10 stops · 50 days · 6,701 km
Ernest H. Quayle
14 islands · Apr – May 1922
Ernest H. Quayle across 14 islands, April – May 1922112 specimens · 12 stops · 40 days · 3,640 km
P.H. Birnbaum
4 islands of French Polynesia · Sep – Nov 1988
P.H. Birnbaum across 4 islands of French Polynesia, September – November 1988110 specimens · 13 stops · 79 days · 698 km
J.E.R. Tilden
Tahiti and Australia · Aug – Sep 1912
J.E.R. Tilden in Tahiti and Australia, August – September 1912117 specimens · 7 stops · 32 days
Hessler Brown
13 islands of French Polynesia · Aug – Dec 1922
Hessler Brown across 13 islands of French Polynesia, August – December 192274 specimens · 29 stops · 137 days · 9,305 km
Johnson Randall
5 islands · Feb – May 1956
Johnson Randall across 5 islands, February – May 1956111 specimens · 14 stops · 108 days · 128 km
Charles Walters
Tahiti and Oʻahu · May – Sep 1967
Charles Walters in Tahiti and Oʻahu, May – September 1967110 specimens · 14 stops · 126 days · 8,847 km
Whitney Expedition
12 islands of French Polynesia · Jun – Sep 1922
Whitney Expedition, June – September 192263 specimens · 16 stops · 86 days · 4,274 km
Alastair M. Adamson
Tahiti · Aug – Sep 1928
Alastair M. Adamson in Tahiti, August – September 192891 specimens · 6 stops · 28 days · 82 km
J.J. Magnuson
7 islands · Oct – Nov 1961
J.J. Magnuson across 7 islands, October – November 1961139 specimens · 9 stops · 36 days · 1,561 km
Johnson Randall
9 islands of French Polynesia · Feb – Jul 1957
Johnson Randall across 9 islands of French Polynesia, February – July 195786 specimens · 22 stops · 146 days · 1,617 km
Gerrit Parmele Wilder
7 islands · Jun – Aug 1925
Gerrit Parmele Wilder across 7 islands, June – August 192552 specimens · 22 stops · 65 days · 10,586 km
R. Tahuaitu
3 islands of French Polynesia · Oct – Nov 1992
R. Tahuaitu in Huahine, Tahaa and Tahiti, October – November 1992238 specimens · 2 stops · 8 days · 54 km
A. Mouly
5 islands of French Polynesia · Jun – Jul 2004
A. Mouly across 5 islands of French Polynesia, June – July 200460 specimens · 17 stops · 37 days · 1,785 km
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
7 islands · Nov 1977 – Feb 1978
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 7 islands, November 1977 – February 197861 specimens · 19 stops · 80 days · 5,557 km
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
4 islands · Jan – Feb 1962
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 4 islands, January – February 196257 specimens · 12 stops · 30 days · 22,109 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.