Joseph Conrad in a "writers walk" commemorates Conrad's visits to Australia between 1879 and 1892. The plaque notes that "Many of his works reflect his 'affection for that young continent.'" In San Francisco in 1979, a small triangular square at Columbus Avenue and Beach Street, near Fisherman's Wharf, was dedicated as "Joseph Conrad Square" after Conrad. The square's dedication was timed to coincide with release of Francis Ford Coppola's "Heart of Darkness"-inspired film, "Apocalypse Now". In the latter part of World War II, the Royal Navy cruiser "HMS Danae" was rechristened ORP "Conrad" and served as part of the Polish Navy. Notwithstanding
Kurtz (Heart of Darkness) worshipped as a god by his underlings; in Caesar's case, his followers believe him to be the reincarnation of Mars, the Roman god of war. The video game "" (2012), another modernized loose adaptation of "Heart of Darkness" (set in a ruined Dubai), has a similar Kurtz figure named Colonel John Konrad. Timothy Findley's novel "Headhunter" (1993) features Kurtz's escape from "Heart of Darkness" and subsequent reign of terror over the city of Toronto as the psychiatrist-in-chief at the Parkin Institute. The poem "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot starts off with the line "Mistah Kurtz - He Dead." In