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, 1911 to 1926, 1,015 specimens between them.
2 collectors and expeditions25 days in the field11,964 km between stops893 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
Ditlev Due Thaanum
10 islands of the United States · May – Aug 1923
Ditlev Due Thaanum across 10 islands of the United States, May – August 1923918 specimens · 15 stops · 96 days · 11,766 km
Ditlev Due Thaanum
4 islands · 1–13 Oct 1911
Ditlev Due Thaanum across 4 islands, 1–13 October 191143 specimens · 2 stops · 13 days · 198 km
J. Thaanum
the United States · 20–30 May 1926
J. Thaanum in the United States, 20–30 May 192654 specimens · 3 stops · 11 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.