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. 27 journeys so far, 1927 to 1988, 16,209 specimens between them.
9 collectors and expeditions479 days in the field233,940 km between stops15,282 photographed specimens
27 journeys match
Donald Anderson
Oʻahu · Dec 1938 – Jan 1939
Donald Anderson in Oʻahu, December 1938 – January 193984 specimens · 2 stops · 9 days
Donald Anderson
Oʻahu · 23–31 Jan 1937
Donald Anderson in Oʻahu, 23–31 January 193778 specimens · 2 stops · 9 days · 125 km
Alex B. Anderson
3 islands of French Polynesia · 8–26 Aug 1934
Alex B. Anderson in Tubuai, Rurutu and Raivavae, 8–26 August 193440 specimens · 5 stops · 19 days · 411 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.