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. 13 journeys so far, 1955 to 1975, 1,599 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions289 days in the field97,219 km between stops
13 journeys match
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16 islands · Jul – Dec 1955
station, July – December 1955196 specimens · 82 stops · 144 days · 48,394 km
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4 islands of the United States · Mar – May 1968
station, March – May 1968346 specimens · 11 stops · 41 days · 932 km
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3 islands of the United States · Nov – Dec 1968
station, November – December 1968344 specimens · 7 stops · 28 days · 298 km
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3 islands of the United States · Jun – Sep 1967
station, June – September 1967116 specimens · 11 stops · 90 days · 907 km
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17 islands · Aug – Dec 1956
station, August – December 195676 specimens · 33 stops · 130 days · 25,742 km
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4 islands of the United States · Oct – Nov 1958
station, October – November 1958111 specimens · 13 stops · 32 days · 5,167 km
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3 islands of the United States · Oct – Nov 1967
station, October – November 196795 specimens · 10 stops · 20 days · 397 km
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4 islands of the United States · Oct – Nov 1972
station, October – November 197278 specimens · 9 stops · 25 days · 700 km
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8–29 May 1969
station, 8–29 May 196959 specimens · 12 stops · 22 days · 1,677 km
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10 islands · Apr – Jun 1971
station, April – June 197146 specimens · 10 stops · 57 days · 5,591 km
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5 islands of the United States · Jul – Aug 1972
station, July – August 197245 specimens · 9 stops · 42 days · 4,512 km
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5 islands of the United States · Oct – Nov 1975
station, October – November 197542 specimens · 7 stops · 26 days · 2,702 km
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Oʻahu and Molokaʻi · Feb – Mar 1971
station, February – March 197145 specimens · 3 stops · 30 days · 200 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.