Beaufort (surname)
Beaufort is the name of a noble family of 14th and 15th-century England, descended from John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster. For a list of individual Beauforts, see House of Beaufort.
* Carel Godin de Beaufort (1934–1964), Dutch Porsche F ...
Duke of Beaufort (England)
Duke of Beaufort (), a title in the Peerage of England, was created by Charles II in 1682 for Henry Somerset, 3rd Marquess of Worcester, a descendant of Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, legitimised son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of S ...
Beaufort Sea
The Beaufort Sea (; french: Mer de Beaufort, Iñupiaq: ''Taġiuq'') is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska, and west of Canada's Arctic islands. The sea is named after Sir Fr ...
in the Arctic Ocean
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Beaufort Island
Beaufort Island is an island in Antarctica's Ross Sea. It is the northernmost feature of the Ross Archipelago,
Beaufort, South Australia
Beaufort is a locality along the Augusta Highway in the Mid North region of South Australia. The town was surveyed in November 1878 and gazetted on 4 September 1879.
History
Indigenous
According to the ''Manning Index of South Australian H ...
Beaufort Inlet
Beaufort Inlet also locally known as Pallinup Estuary is an inlet located in the Great Southern region of Western Australia about east of Albany.
The inlet functions mostly as a result of wave energy and is a wave dominated estuary.
The estu ...
, an inlet located in the Great Southern region of Western Australia
Beaufort, Haute-Garonne
Beaufort (; oc, Bèuhòrt) is a village and commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.
Geography
The commune is bordered by four other communes: Sainte-Foy-de-Peyrolières to the northeast, Rieumes to the south, Montgras ...
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Beaufort, Hérault
Beaufort (; Languedocien: ''Baufòrt'') is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in southern France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Hérault department
The following is a list of the 342 communes of the Hérault ...
Beaufort, Jura
Beaufort () is a former commune in the Jura department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Beaufort-Orbagna.Beaufort, Nord
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Beaufort, Savoie
Beaufort (; frp, Bôfôrt), also Beaufort-sur-Doron, is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It is the namesake for the Beaufort cheese, which is produced in the surrounding area.
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Beaufort-en-Santerre
Beaufort-en-Santerre (, literally ''Beaufort in Santerre''; pcd, Bieufort-in-Santérre) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Geography
The commune is situated on the junction of the D329 and D161 roads, ...
, Somme
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Beaufort-en-Vallée
Beaufort-en-Vallée () is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Beaufort-en-Anjou.Beaufort-sur-Gervanne, Drôme
* Montmorency-Beaufort, Aube
Beaufort (federal constituency)
Beaufort is a federal constituency in Interior Division (Beaufort District and Kuala Penyu District), Sabah, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat
The Dewan Rakyat (English: 'House of Representatives'; ) is the lower house ...
South Africa
* Beaufort West, largest town in the arid Great Karoo
* Fort Beaufort, town in the Amatole District of Eastern Cape Province
* Port Beaufort, settlement in Eden in the Western Cape province
Beaufort, North Carolina
Beaufort ( ) is a town in and the county seat of Carteret County, North Carolina, Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. Established in 1713 and incorporated in 1723, Beaufort is the fourth oldest town in North Carolina (after Bath, Nor ...
* Bristol Beaufort, a large British torpedo bomber
* CSS ''Beaufort'', a Confederate Navy gunboat
* ''Beaufort'', a transport which served as headquarters for the Governor of Nova Scotia, Edward Cornwallis, for some Nova Scotia Council meetings
Transportation
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Beaufort (automobiles)
Beaufort was a German manufacturer of automobiles solely for the British market. It existed from 1901 to 1906 and was established with English capital.
A notable piece of company history is that a Beaufort car was the first vehicle to climb Copen ...
, a German manufacturer of automobiles solely for the British market from 1902 to 1910
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Beaufort (dinghy)
The Beaufort is a substantial GRP sailing dinghy, with round bilges (appearing similar to a carvel smooth hull, a mainsail and a jib.
It was designed by Ian Proctor c. 1965. It's a relatively stable cruising dinghy, and is equipped with a metal ...
, a sailing dinghy designed by Ian Proctor
* Beaufort, one of the
GWR 3031 Class
The Dean Single, 3031 Class, or Achilles Class was a type of steam locomotive built by the British Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1899. They were designed by William Dean for passenger work. The first 30 members of the class were built ...
locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915, formerly named ''Bellerophon'' before 1895
Beaufort cheese
Beaufort () is a firm, raw cow's milk cheese associated with the gruyère family. An Alpine cheese, it is produced in Beaufortain, Tarentaise valley and Maurienne, which are located in the Savoie region of the French Alps.
Varieties
There are ...
, a French cheese
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Beaufort cipher
The Beaufort cipher, created by Sir Francis Beaufort, is a substitution cipher similar to the Vigenère cipher, with a slightly modified enciphering mechanism and tableau. Its most famous application was in a rotor-based cipher machine, the H ...
Beaufort War Hospital
Beaufort War Hospital was a military hospital in Stapleton district, now Greater Fishponds, of Bristol during the First World War. Before the war, it was an asylum called the Bristol Lunatic Asylum, and after the war it became the psychiatric ho ...
, Bristol, England
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Beaufort scale
The Beaufort scale is an empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land. Its full name is the Beaufort wind force scale.
History
The scale was devised in 1805 by the Irish hydrographer Francis Beaufort ...
, an empirical measure for describing wind intensity
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