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. 72 journeys so far, 1953 to 2002, 19,945 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions1,929 days in the field578,122 km between stops106 photographed specimens
72 journeys match
Johnson Randall
27 islands · Dec 1970 – May 1971
Johnson Randall across 27 islands, December 1970 – May 19712,367 specimens · 98 stops · 175 days · 9,120 km
Johnson Randall
25 islands · Mar – Dec 1968
Johnson Randall across 25 islands, March – December 19681,676 specimens · 99 stops · 261 days · 106,577 km
Johnson Randall
35 islands · Feb – Sep 1977
Johnson Randall across 35 islands, February – September 19771,178 specimens · 101 stops · 216 days · 16,972 km
Johnson Randall
12 islands · Jun – Sep 1978
Johnson Randall across 12 islands, June – September 1978840 specimens · 52 stops · 92 days · 8,104 km
Johnson Randall
14 islands of Sri Lanka · Jan – Apr 1975
Johnson Randall across 14 islands of Sri Lanka, January – April 1975811 specimens · 56 stops · 88 days
Johnson Randall
12 islands · Jun – Sep 1973
Johnson Randall across 12 islands, June – September 1973770 specimens · 45 stops · 83 days · 15,630 km
Johnson Randall
20 islands · Aug – Nov 1987
Johnson Randall across 20 islands, August – November 1987700 specimens · 51 stops · 87 days · 9,036 km
Johnson Randall
4 islands of Réunion · Oct – Dec 1973
Johnson Randall across 4 islands of Réunion, October – December 1973565 specimens · 45 stops · 78 days · 215 km
Johnson Randall
6 islands of Chile · Jan – Mar 1969
Johnson Randall across 6 islands of Chile, January – March 1969503 specimens · 38 stops · 78 days · 8,647 km
Johnson Randall
10 islands · Jan – Apr 1973
Johnson Randall across 10 islands, January – April 1973499 specimens · 49 stops · 110 days · 10,184 km
Johnson Randall
11 islands · Aug – Oct 1988
Johnson Randall across 11 islands, August – October 1988522 specimens · 31 stops · 72 days · 5,627 km
Johnson Randall
10 islands · May – Jul 1975
Johnson Randall across 10 islands, May – July 1975457 specimens · 30 stops · 79 days · 14,699 km
Johnson Randall
8 islands of the Marshall Islands · Sep – Dec 1982
Johnson Randall across 8 islands of the Marshall Islands, September – December 1982435 specimens · 30 stops · 84 days · 895 km
Johnson Randall
15 islands of Israel · Sep – Oct 1974
Johnson Randall across 15 islands of Israel, September – October 1974454 specimens · 30 stops · 42 days
Johnson Randall
14 islands · Jan – Apr 1980
Johnson Randall across 14 islands, January – April 1980346 specimens · 38 stops · 101 days
Johnson Randall
15 islands of Palau · Mar – May 1970
Johnson Randall across 15 islands of Palau, March – May 1970432 specimens · 21 stops · 54 days · 44,188 km
Johnson Randall
5 islands of Micronesia · Jun – Nov 1969
Johnson Randall across 5 islands of Micronesia, June – November 1969322 specimens · 40 stops · 139 days · 27,973 km
Johnson Randall
13 islands · Feb – Jun 1979
Johnson Randall across 13 islands, February – June 1979344 specimens · 33 stops · 111 days · 11,568 km
Johnson Randall
5 islands · Feb – Mar 1983
Johnson Randall across 5 islands, February – March 1983426 specimens · 24 stops · 37 days
Johnson Randall
9 islands · Jul – Oct 1967
Johnson Randall across 9 islands, July – October 1967303 specimens · 29 stops · 95 days · 2,620 km
Johnson Randall
4 islands · Jan – Mar 1984
Johnson Randall across 4 islands, January – March 1984376 specimens · 20 stops · 38 days
Johnson Randall
7 islands of Israel · Sep – Nov 1975
Johnson Randall across 7 islands of Israel, September – November 1975284 specimens · 25 stops · 39 days
Johnson Randall
20 islands · Aug – Dec 1993
Johnson Randall across 20 islands, August – December 1993214 specimens · 31 stops · 114 days · 29,910 km
Johnson Randall
5 islands · Jun – Dec 1971
Johnson Randall across 5 islands, June – December 1971221 specimens · 23 stops · 158 days · 27,137 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.