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3 unusual facts about Conrad Martens


Darwin's Rhea

On the following day, Darwin shot a guanaco which provided them with a Christmas meal, and in the first days of January, the artist Conrad Martens shot a rhea which they enjoyed eating before Darwin realised that this was the elusive smaller rhea rather than a juvenile, and preserved the head, neck, legs, one wing, and many of the larger feathers.

Kambala School

Frequented by the colonial artist Conrad Martens during the 1840s, extensively renovated by architect John Horbury Hunt in the 1880s, Tivoli features modern dormitory-style living amenities.

St Thomas' Anglican Church, North Sydney

The first church called St Thomas' on the site, then named St Leonard's, was designed by Conrad Martens and opened in 1846.



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