Buchan Inlet


Buchan Inlet (53˚23'00" 129˚46'00" N of Port Stephens, SW side of Pitt I). Sir John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield (1875–1940), was gov gen of Canada, 1935–40. A poet and prolific author of both histories (The Marquis of Montrose, Augustus) and novels (The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle), Buchan created the Gov Gen’s Literary Awards in 1936. He also served the British government in S Africa and France, was newspaper tycoon Lord Beaverbrook’s director of information,...

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