Beaufort may refer to:
People and titles
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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 ...
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House of Beaufort, English nobility
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Duke of Beaufort (England), a title in the peerage of England
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Duke of Beaufort (France), a title in the French nobility
Places
Polar regions
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Beaufort Sea
The Beaufort Sea ( ; ) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Alaska, and west of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The sea is named after Sir Francis Beaufort, a Hydrography, hydrographer. T ...
in the Arctic Ocean
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Beaufort Island, an island in Antarctica's Ross Sea
Australia
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Beaufort, Queensland, a locality in the Barcaldine Region, Queensland
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Beaufort, South Australia
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Beaufort, Victoria
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Beaufort Inlet (Western Australia), an inlet located in the Great Southern region of Western Australia
Canada
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Beaufort Range, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
France
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Beaufort, Haute-Garonne
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Beaufort, Hérault
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Beaufort, Isère
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Beaufort, Jura
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Beaufort, Nord
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Beaufort, Savoie
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Beaufort-Blavincourt
Beaufort-Blavincourt (; ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France.
Geography
A farming village located 13 miles (21 km) west of Arras on the D78 road.
Population
Sights
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, Pas-de-Calais
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Beaufort-en-Argonne, Meuse
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Beaufort-en-Santerre, Somme
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Beaufort-en-Vallée, Maine-et-Loire
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Beaufort-sur-Gervanne
Beaufort-sur-Gervanne (; Vivaro-Alpine dialect, Vivaro-Alpine: ''Beufòrt de Gervana'') is a Communes of France, commune in the Drôme Departments of France, department in southeastern France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Drôme depart ...
, Drôme
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Montmorency-Beaufort, Aube
Ireland
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Beaufort, County Kerry, a village
Luxembourg
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Beaufort, Luxembourg
Beaufort (; ; ) is a Communes of Luxembourg, commune and town in eastern Luxembourg. It is part of the canton of Echternach (canton), Echternach, which is part of the district of Grevenmacher (district), Grevenmacher.
Commune
In 2024, the town o ...
Lebanon
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Beaufort Castle, Lebanon
Malaysia
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Beaufort, Malaysia
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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 since 1995.
The federal constituency was created in the 1994 redistribution and ...
South Africa
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Beaufort West, largest town in the arid Great Karoo
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Fort Beaufort
Fort Beaufort ( Xhosa: iBhofolo), officially renamed KwaMaqoma in March 2023, is a town in the Amatole District of South Africa's Eastern Cape Province, and had a population of 25,668 in 2011. The town was established in 1837 and became a mun ...
, town in the Amatole District of Eastern Cape Province
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Port Beaufort, settlement in Eden in the Western Cape province
United Kingdom
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Beaufort, Blaenau Gwent
Beaufort ( or ) is a village and Community (Wales), community on the northern edge of the county borough of Blaenau Gwent in Wales. It is located in the historic counties of Wales, historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire) and the Preserv ...
, Wales
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Beaufort Castle, Scotland
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Beaufort's Dyke, between Scotland and Northern Ireland
United States
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Beaufort, North Carolina
Beaufort ( , different from that of Beaufort, South Carolina) is a town in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States, and its county seat. Established in 1713 and incorporated in 1723, Beaufort is the fourth oldest town in North Carolina ( ...
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Beaufort County, North Carolina
Beaufort County ( ) is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 44,652. Its county seat is Washington, North Carolina, Washington. The co ...
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Beaufort, South Carolina
Beaufort ( , different from that of Beaufort, North Carolina) is a city in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, and its county seat. Chartered in 1711, it is the second-oldest city in South Carolina, behind Charleston, South Carolina ...
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Beaufort County, South Carolina
Beaufort County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 187,117. Its county seat is Beaufort and its largest community is Hilton Head Island.
Beaufort County is part of the Hilton Hea ...
Military uses
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Bristol Beaufort
The Bristol Beaufort (manufacturer designation Type 152) is a British twin-engined torpedo bomber designed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, and developed from experience gained designing and building the earlier Bristol Blenheim, Blenheim li ...
, a large British torpedo bomber
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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), a German manufacturer of automobiles solely for the British market from 1902 to 1910
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Beaufort (dinghy), 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
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Beaufort railway station, Victoria
Other uses
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''Beaufort'' (film), a 2007 Israeli Oscar-nominated film, referring to Beaufort Castle, Lebanon
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''Beaufort'' (novel), title of the 2007 English-language translation of the novel אם יש גן עדן (trsl. ''Im Yesh Gan Eden''), basis for the film
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Beaufort Castle (disambiguation)
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Beaufort cheese, a French cheese
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Beaufort cipher, an encryption technique using a substitution cipher
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Beaufort County Schools (disambiguation)
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Beaufort Group, subdivisions of the Karoo Supergroup
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Beaufort War Hospital, 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. It was devised in 1805 by Francis Beaufort a hydrographer in the Royal Navy. It ...
, an empirical measure for describing wind intensity
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