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
F. Raymond Fosberg
7 islands · May – Jun 1985
F. Raymond Fosberg across 7 islands, May – June 198565 specimens · 10 stops · 35 days · 36,228 km
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
7 islands · Jan – Mar 1960
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 7 islands, January – March 196057 specimens · 7 stops · 58 days · 16,910 km
Johnson Randall
Easter Island and Tahiti · Jan – Feb 1986
Johnson Randall in Easter Island and Tahiti, January – February 198690 specimens · 12 stops · 21 days
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
5 islands · Jan – Feb 1961
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 5 islands, January – February 196149 specimens · 14 stops · 40 days · 5,401 km
Dennis M. Devaney
16 islands · Sep – Oct 1967
Dennis M. Devaney across 16 islands, September – October 196750 specimens · 18 stops · 56 days · 7,816 km
J.C. Jolinon
4 islands of French Polynesia · Jan – Feb 1987
J.C. Jolinon across 4 islands of French Polynesia, January – February 198749 specimens · 15 stops · 53 days · 85 km
B.A. Baker
Easter Island and Tahiti · Jan – Feb 1969
B.A. Baker in Easter Island and Tahiti, January – February 196993 specimens · 6 stops · 33 days
N. Hallé
3 islands of French Polynesia · May – Jun 1979
N. Hallé in Tubuai, Tahiti and Marotiri, May – June 197950 specimens · 16 stops · 41 days
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Steven L. Montgomery
7 islands of French Polynesia · Jul – Sep 1977
Steven L. Montgomery across 7 islands of French Polynesia, July – September 197745 specimens · 12 stops · 71 days · 4,361 km
Harold Yuen
3 islands · Oct – Nov 1961
Harold Yuen in Rangiroa Atoll, Tahiti and Makemo Atoll, October – November 196196 specimens · 4 stops · 21 days · 332 km
H. Kennedy
3 islands · Aug – Sep 1979
H. Kennedy in Tahiti, Hawaiʻi Island and Upolu, August – September 197942 specimens · 11 stops · 33 days · 6,642 km
Johnson Randall
4 islands · Nov – Dec 1966
Johnson Randall across 4 islands, November – December 196664 specimens · 9 stops · 26 days · 43 km
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Kenneth Pike Emory
3 islands · Sep – Nov 1925
Kenneth Pike Emory in Moorea, Tahiti and Huahine, September – November 192546 specimens · 3 stops · 38 days · 189 km
John L. Earle
Easter Island and Tahiti · Jan – Feb 1986
John L. Earle in Easter Island and Tahiti, January – February 198667 specimens · 6 stops · 14 days
M.-H Sachet
4 islands · Jun – Jul 1976
M.-H Sachet across 4 islands, June – July 197646 specimens · 8 stops · 28 days · 2,621 km
Kenneth Pike Emory
3 islands · 14–28 Apr 1925
Kenneth Pike Emory in Raiatea, Tahiti and Taha'A, 14–28 April 192543 specimens · 3 stops · 15 days · 269 km
A. Haywood
4 islands · Apr – May 1971
A. Haywood across 4 islands, April – May 197160 specimens · 5 stops · 32 days · 1,709 km
Alvin Seale
Tahiti and Oʻahu · Nov – Dec 1900
Alvin Seale in Tahiti and Oʻahu, November – December 190041 specimens · 2 stops · 20 days · 4,423 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.