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. 5 journeys so far, 1957 to 1969, 892 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions46 days in the field90 km between stops813 photographed specimens
5 journeys match
Mary Eleanor King
Jan – Mar 1964
Mary Eleanor King, January – March 1964179 specimens · 17 stops · 52 days
Mary Eleanor King
1–10 Feb 1957
Mary Eleanor King, 1–10 February 1957332 specimens · 2 stops · 10 days
R.M. King
Thailand · Jun – Jul 1963
R.M. King in Thailand, June – July 196395 specimens · 8 stops · 44 days
Mary Eleanor King
Niʻihau and Kauaʻi · 11–22 Sep 1959
Mary Eleanor King in Niʻihau and Kauaʻi, 11–22 September 1959237 specimens · 2 stops · 12 days · 90 km
B. Hocking
the United States · May – Jun 1969
B. Hocking in the United States, May – June 196949 specimens · 8 stops · 36 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.