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. 12 journeys so far, 1933 to 1986, 24,299 specimens between them.
6 collectors and expeditions661 days in the field435,200 km between stops21,161 photographed specimens
12 journeys match
Micronesian Expedition
26 islands · Dec 1935 – May 1936
Micronesian Expedition, December 1935 – May 19367,994 specimens · 35 stops · 178 days · 15,409 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
22 islands of Palau · Dec 1935 – Jun 1936
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 22 islands of Palau, December 1935 – June 19366,659 specimens · 16 stops · 189 days · 15,221 km
S. Ito
19 islands of the United States · Dec 1935 – May 1936
S. Ito across 19 islands of the United States, December 1935 – May 19363,668 specimens · 32 stops · 178 days · 11,506 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
23 islands · May – Dec 1949
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 23 islands, May – December 19492,551 specimens · 57 stops · 218 days · 71,593 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
T. Hosokawa
17 islands · Jul – Nov 1933
T. Hosokawa across 17 islands, July – November 1933500 specimens · 50 stops · 137 days · 17,296 km
Johnson Randall
15 islands of Palau · Mar – May 1970
Johnson Randall across 15 islands of Palau, March – May 1970432 specimens · 21 stops · 54 days · 44,188 km
T. Hosokawa
11 islands · Jul – Sep 1937
T. Hosokawa across 11 islands, July – September 1937180 specimens · 26 stops · 87 days · 4,494 km
A.R. Emery
11 islands of Palau · Mar – Apr 1970
A.R. Emery across 11 islands of Palau, March – April 1970294 specimens · 18 stops · 28 days · 43,958 km
Johnson Randall
8 islands · Jun – Sep 1986
Johnson Randall across 8 islands, June – September 1986167 specimens · 23 stops · 68 days · 75,616 km
Johnson Randall
14 islands · Aug – Nov 1966
Johnson Randall across 14 islands, August – November 1966116 specimens · 21 stops · 89 days · 28,513 km
T. Hosokawa
5 islands · Jul – Sep 1941
T. Hosokawa across 5 islands, July – September 194162 specimens · 13 stops · 56 days · 829 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.