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. 8 journeys so far, 1903 to 1989, 1,023 specimens between them.
8 collectors and expeditions134 days in the field107,913 km between stops946 photographed specimens
8 journeys match
M.M. Fleischer
13 islands · Feb – Jun 1903
M.M. Fleischer across 13 islands, February – June 1903411 specimens · 33 stops · 113 days · 52,279 km
Otto Degener
5 islands · Aug – Oct 1981
Otto Degener across 5 islands, August – October 1981122 specimens · 26 stops · 41 days · 26,632 km
Isa Degener
5 islands · Aug – Oct 1981
Isa Degener across 5 islands, August – October 1981115 specimens · 26 stops · 41 days · 26,632 km
Maxwell S. Doty
Tasmania · Jul – Sep 1957
Maxwell S. Doty in Tasmania, July – September 1957129 specimens · 11 stops · 45 days
J.R. Croft
Tasmania · 14–25 Feb 1989
J.R. Croft in Tasmania, 14–25 February 198980 specimens · 9 stops · 12 days · 374 km
M.M. Richardson
Tasmania · 14–25 Feb 1989
M.M. Richardson in Tasmania, 14–25 February 198977 specimens · 9 stops · 12 days · 374 km
A. Moscal
Tasmania · 5–19 Apr 1984
A. Moscal in Tasmania, 5–19 April 198449 specimens · 9 stops · 15 days · 1,622 km
L.A. Doore
Tasmania · Nov – Dec 1934
L.A. Doore in Tasmania, November – December 193440 specimens · 5 stops · 43 days
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.