page_title: Curlew Camp
section_title: Curlew Camp after 1900
hierarchical_section_title: Curlew Camp / Curlew Camp after 1900
caption_attribution_description: English: Frederick Lane (1880-1969) Australian Olympic swimmer
context_page_description: Curlew Camp was an artists' camp established in the late 19th century on the eastern shore of Little Sirius Cove, now part of Mosman Bay in Sydney. It was home for some years to several leading Australian artists, such as Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts of the Heidelberg School, and it was from here that some of their most famous paintings were created. Today the site is still in its natural state and the Mosman Council has built a foreshore walk called the "Curlew Camp Artist's Walk" which traces the journey that the residents of the camp followed when they disembarked from the ferry at South Mosman ferry wharf, then known as "Musgrave Street Wharf," and returned to the camping site. The walk starts at the wharf and continues along the harbour's edge for 1.6 km until it finishes at Taronga Zoo Wharf.
context_section_description: After the painters had left Curlew, the camp became more a place for those who were interested in sailing or enjoying the outdoor life. Frederick Lane (1880–1969) became the proprietor of the camp. Lane (see photo right) was a famous Australian Olympic swimmer who won two gold medals at the 1900 Games in Paris. When he returned from the Games, he lived at the camp and commuted to the city where he worked in his printing firm called Smith and Lane. He stayed at the camp until his marriage in 1908. The camp became larger and more structured during this latter period. It now had a weatherboard dining room and a billiards tent known as the tabernacle (see photos below).
  The camp closed in 1912 when it was decided to locate the Taronga Park Zoo on the ridge above the site.
caption: Frederick Lane
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