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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. 7 journeys so far, 1986 to 2005, 652 specimens between them.

1 collectors and expeditions53 days in the field1,820 km between stops491 photographed specimens

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7 journeys match

C.T. Imada

3 islands of the United States · 3–14 Mar 1988

C.T. Imada in Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Kauaʻi, 3–14 March 1988

221 specimens · 12 stops · 12 days · 211 km

C.T. Imada

4 islands of Kiribati · Aug – Sep 2003

C.T. Imada across 4 islands of Kiribati, August – September 2003

170 specimens · 8 stops · 20 days · 789 km

C.T. Imada

Kauaʻi · 6–12 Apr 1988

C.T. Imada in Kauaʻi, 6–12 April 1988

76 specimens · 7 stops · 7 days

C.T. Imada

3 islands of the United States · Jul – Aug 2002

C.T. Imada in Maui, Lānaʻi and Kauaʻi, July – August 2002

55 specimens · 3 stops · 33 days · 420 km

C.T. Imada

Molokaʻi · 12–30 Oct 1986

C.T. Imada in Molokaʻi, 12–30 October 1986

41 specimens · 5 stops · 19 days · 29 km

C.T. Imada

Hawaiʻi Island · 1–11 Feb 1987

C.T. Imada in Hawaiʻi Island, 1–11 February 1987

42 specimens · 5 stops · 11 days

C.T. Imada

Kauaʻi and Maui · 2–11 Aug 2005

C.T. Imada in Kauaʻi and Maui, 2–11 August 2005

47 specimens · 3 stops · 10 days · 371 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.