Editing Joseph Conrad (section)

==Memorials==
[[File:Polska Gdynia skwerKosciuszki 002.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Anchor]]-shaped Conrad monument at [[Gdynia]], on Poland's [[Baltic Sea|Baltic seacoast]]]]
An anchor-shaped monument to Conrad at [[Gdynia]], on Poland's [[Baltic Sea]]coast, features a quotation from him in Polish: "''Nic tak nie nęci, nie rozczarowuje i nie zniewala, jak życie na morzu''" ("[T]here is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea" – [[wikisource:Lord Jim/Chapter 2|''Lord Jim'', chapter 2, paragraph 1]]{{user generated inline|date=January 2021|certain=yes}}).

In [[Circular Quay]], Sydney, Australia, a plaque 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.'"<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://z.about.com/d/goaustralia/1/0/G/Y/josephconrad.jpg |title=Plaque honoring Joseph Conrad |access-date=1 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207141351/http://z.about.com/d/goaustralia/1/0/G/Y/josephconrad.jpg |archive-date=7 February 2009 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

[[File:Joseph Conrad monument Vologda.JPG|thumb|left|upright|Monument to Conrad in [[Vologda]], Russia, to which Conrad and his parents were exiled in 1862]]
In San Francisco in 1979, a small triangular square at Columbus Avenue and Beach Street, near [[Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco|Fisherman's Wharf]], was dedicated as "[[Joseph Conrad Square]]" after Conrad. The square's dedication was timed to coincide with the release of [[Francis Ford Coppola]]'s ''[[Heart of Darkness]]''-inspired film, ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''. Conrad does not appear to have ever visited San Francisco.

In the latter part of World War II, the [[Royal Navy]] [[cruiser]] ''HMS Danae'' was rechristened [[HMS Danae (D44)|ORP ''Conrad'']] and served as part of the [[Polish Navy#World War II|Polish Navy]].

[[File:Memorial Plaque in honor of Joseph Conrad in Singapore.jpg|thumb|150px|Plaque commemorating "Joseph Conrad–Korzeniowski", Singapore]]
Notwithstanding the undoubted sufferings that Conrad endured on many of his voyages, sentimentality and canny marketing place him at the best lodgings in several of his destinations. Hotels across the Far East still lay claim to him as an honoured guest, with, however, no evidence to back their claims: Singapore's [[Raffles Hotel]] continues to claim he stayed there though he lodged, in fact, at the Sailors' Home nearby. His visit to [[Bangkok]] also remains in that city's [[collective memory]], and is recorded in the official history of [[Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok|The Oriental]] Hotel (where he never, in fact, stayed, lodging aboard his ship, the ''Otago'') along with that of a less well-behaved guest, [[Somerset Maugham]], who pilloried the hotel in a short story in revenge for attempts to eject him.

A plaque commemorating "Joseph Conrad–Korzeniowski" has been installed near Singapore's [[The Fullerton Hotel Singapore|Fullerton Hotel]].

Conrad is also reported to have stayed at Hong Kong's [[The Peninsula Hong Kong|Peninsula Hotel]]—at a port that, in fact, he never visited. Later literary admirers, notably [[Graham Greene]], followed closely in his footsteps, sometimes requesting the same room and perpetuating myths that have no basis in fact. No Caribbean resort is yet known to have claimed Conrad's patronage, although he is believed to have stayed at a [[Fort-de-France]] ''pension'' upon arrival in [[Martinique]] on his first voyage, in 1875, when he travelled as a passenger on the ''Mont Blanc''.

In April 2013, a monument to Conrad was unveiled in the Russian town of [[Vologda]], where he and his parents lived in exile in 1862–63. The monument was removed, with unclear explanation, in June 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vologda.aif.ru/society/sudba_pamyatnika_dzhozefu_konradu_v_vologde_ostaetsya_zagadkoy|title=Судьба памятника Джозефу Конраду в Вологде остается загадкой|website=www.vologda.aif.ru|date=2016-06-24|access-date=28 June 2016|archive-date=24 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224155355/https://vologda.aif.ru/society/sudba_pamyatnika_dzhozefu_konradu_v_vologde_ostaetsya_zagadkoy|url-status=live}}</ref>