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. 3 journeys so far, 1934 to 1938, 533 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions11 days in the field1,307 km between stops533 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
Charles Montague Cooke Jr. 7 Others
3 islands · Sep – Oct 1934
Charles Montague Cooke Jr. 7 Others in Raiatea, Moorea and Tahiti, September – October 1934311 specimens · 3 stops · 18 days · 225 km
Charles Montague Cooke Jr. 7 Others
3 islands · May – Jun 1934
Charles Montague Cooke Jr. 7 Others in Pitcairn Island, Tauna and Henderson Island, May – June 1934148 specimens · 4 stops · 18 days · 834 km
Charles Montague Cooke Jr. 7 Others
Ovalau and Munia Island · Jul – Aug 1938
Charles Montague Cooke Jr. 7 Others in Ovalau and Munia Island, July – August 193874 specimens · 2 stops · 20 days · 248 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.