Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk
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Count Geoffrey Wladislas Vaile Potocki de Montalk was a poet, polemicist, and pretender to the Polish throne.
A police photograph of Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk
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New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It comprises two main landmasses—the North Island and the South Island —and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island
Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk
…Wladislas Vaile Potocki de Montalk (10 June 1903 – 14 April 1997) was a poet, polemicist, and pretender to the Polish throne. Potocki was born in New Zealand, the eldest son of Auckland architect Robert Wladislas (Potocki) de Montalk, grandson of Paris-born Joseph Wladislas Edmond Potocki de Montalk, and…
The Waitangi sheet from the Treaty of Waitangi
A meeting of European and Māori residents of Hawke's Bay Province. Engraving, 1863.
Residents of Dunedin celebrate the news of the Armistice of 11 November 1918.
The snow-capped Southern Alps dominate the South Island, while the North Island's Northland Peninsula stretches towards the subtropics.