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. 32 journeys so far, 1928 to 2007, 33,332 specimens between them.
25 collectors and expeditions1,197 days in the field624,988 km between stops27,052 photographed specimens
32 journeys match
A.W.C.T. Herre
5 islands · Oct – Nov 1933
A.W.C.T. Herre across 5 islands, October – November 193351 specimens · 6 stops · 19 days
W. Teraoka
Guam and Yap · Mar – Apr 1981
W. Teraoka in Guam and Yap, March – April 198147 specimens · 8 stops · 19 days · 17,396 km
V Townsend Cromwell cruise 53
10 islands · Apr – Jun 1971
V Townsend Cromwell cruise 53, April – June 197146 specimens · 10 stops · 57 days · 5,591 km
station
10 islands · Apr – Jun 1971
station, April – June 197146 specimens · 10 stops · 57 days · 5,591 km
Y. Sagawa
Guam and Yap · Mar – Apr 1981
Y. Sagawa in Guam and Yap, March – April 198144 specimens · 8 stops · 19 days · 17,396 km
Brian D. Greene
8 islands · 9–27 Apr 2007
Brian D. Greene across 8 islands, 9–27 April 200749 specimens · 9 stops · 19 days · 2,074 km
Richard L. Pyle
6 islands · 11–28 Apr 2007
Richard L. Pyle across 6 islands, 11–28 April 200743 specimens · 8 stops · 18 days · 1,784 km
R.L. Stemmermann
Yap · Jul – Aug 1978
R.L. Stemmermann in Yap, July – August 197861 specimens · 4 stops · 5 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.