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. 9 journeys so far, 1924 to 1968, 2,373 specimens between them.
8 collectors and expeditions345 days in the field218,211 km between stops2 photographed specimens
9 journeys match
Johnson Randall
25 islands · Mar – Dec 1968
Johnson Randall across 25 islands, March – December 19681,676 specimens · 99 stops · 261 days · 106,577 km
station
16 islands · Jul – Dec 1955
station, July – December 1955196 specimens · 82 stops · 144 days · 48,394 km
V Hugh M. Smith cruise 31
7 islands · Sep – Dec 1955
V Hugh M. Smith cruise 31, September – December 195583 specimens · 41 stops · 72 days · 17,808 km
station
17 islands · Aug – Dec 1956
station, August – December 195676 specimens · 33 stops · 130 days · 25,742 km
J.P. McVey
3 islands · Oct – Nov 1968
J.P. McVey in Fanning Island, Palmyra Atoll and Teraina Island, October – November 1968121 specimens · 8 stops · 20 days
V Hugh M. Smith cruise 35
12 islands · Aug – Sep 1956
V Hugh M. Smith cruise 35, August – September 195650 specimens · 25 stops · 60 days · 13,190 km
Whippoorwill Expedition
6 islands · Jul – Aug 1924
Whippoorwill Expedition, July – August 192467 specimens · 5 stops · 24 days · 1,409 km
William Hashimoto
4 islands · Oct – Nov 1968
William Hashimoto across 4 islands, October – November 196858 specimens · 6 stops · 33 days · 5,091 km
B. Jennions
Fanning Island and Teraina Island · Oct – Nov 1968
B. Jennions in Fanning Island and Teraina Island, October – November 196846 specimens · 4 stops · 11 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.