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. 31 journeys so far, 1981 to 2022, 5,429 specimens between them.
2 collectors and expeditions473 days in the field126,366 km between stops1,738 photographed specimens
31 journeys match
David H. Lorence
Kosrae and Pohnpei · 1–20 Dec 1996
David H. Lorence in Kosrae and Pohnpei, 1–20 December 199666 specimens · 7 stops · 20 days · 39,978 km
Jacques Florence
3 islands of French Polynesia · Jan – Feb 1990
Jacques Florence in Rangiroa Atoll, Niau and Raiatea, January – February 199068 specimens · 4 stops · 23 days · 751 km
Jacques Florence
Raiatea and Nuku Hiva · Aug – Sep 1982
Jacques Florence in Raiatea and Nuku Hiva, August – September 198265 specimens · 4 stops · 20 days · 1,513 km
David H. Lorence
Molokaʻi and Hawaiʻi Island · Oct – Nov 1987
David H. Lorence in Molokaʻi and Hawaiʻi Island, October – November 198751 specimens · 3 stops · 16 days · 217 km
David H. Lorence
Ua Pou and Ua Huka · 11–22 Jun 2004
David H. Lorence in Ua Pou and Ua Huka, 11–22 June 200461 specimens · 4 stops · 12 days · 794 km
Jacques Florence
Tikehau · Oct – Nov 1984
Jacques Florence in Tikehau, October – November 198464 specimens · 2 stops · 8 days · 16 km
Jacques Florence
3 islands of French Polynesia · Apr – May 1988
Jacques Florence in Rurutu, Raiatea and Hao Atoll, April – May 198843 specimens · 2 stops · 21 days · 1,193 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.