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. 2 journeys so far, 1982 to 1987, 192 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions12 days in the field512 km between stops
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Journeys with photographed specimens2 journeys match
Patrick Colin
Enewetak Atoll · Sep – Oct 1982
Patrick Colin in Enewetak Atoll, September – October 1982126 specimens · 5 stops · 16 days
Patrick Colin
Port Moresby and Madang Province · Oct – Nov 1987
Patrick Colin in Port Moresby and Madang Province, October – November 198766 specimens · 2 stops · 7 days · 512 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.