Beaufort Explained

Beaufort may refer to:

People and titles

• Beaufort (surname)
• House of Beaufort, English nobility
• Duke of Beaufort (England), a title in the peerage of England
• Duke of Beaufort (France), a title in the French nobility

Places

Polar regions

• Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean
• Beaufort Island, an island in Antarctica's Ross Sea

Australia

• Beaufort, Queensland, a locality in the Barcaldine Region, Queensland
• Beaufort, South Australia
• Beaufort, Victoria
• Beaufort Inlet (Western Australia), an inlet located in the Great Southern region of Western Australia

Canada

• Beaufort Range, Vancouver Island, British Columbia

France

• Beaufort, Haute-Garonne
• Beaufort, Hérault
• Beaufort, Isère
• Beaufort, Jura
• Beaufort, Nord
• Beaufort, Savoie
• Beaufort-Blavincourt, Pas-de-Calais
• Beaufort-en-Argonne, Meuse
• Beaufort-en-Santerre, Somme
• Beaufort-en-Vallée, Maine-et-Loire
• Beaufort-sur-Gervanne, Drôme
• Montmorency-Beaufort, Aube

Ireland

• Beaufort, County Kerry, a village

Luxembourg

• Beaufort, Luxembourg

Lebanon

• Beaufort Castle, Lebanon

Malaysia

• Beaufort, Malaysia
• Beaufort (federal constituency)

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

United Kingdom

• Beaufort, Blaenau Gwent, Wales
• Beaufort Castle, Scotland
• Beaufort's Dyke, between Scotland and Northern Ireland

United States

• Beaufort, North Carolina
• Beaufort County, North Carolina
• Beaufort, South Carolina
• Beaufort County, South Carolina

Military uses

• 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

• Beaufort (automobiles), a German manufacturer of automobiles solely for the British market from 1902 to 1910
• Beaufort (dinghy), a sailing dinghy designed by Ian Proctor
• Beaufort, one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915, formerly named Bellerophon before 1895
• Beaufort railway station, Victoria

Other uses

• Beaufort (film), a 2007 Israeli Oscar-nominated film, referring to Beaufort Castle, Lebanon
• 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
• Beaufort Castle (disambiguation)
• Beaufort cheese, a French cheese
• Beaufort cipher, an encryption technique using a substitution cipher
• Beaufort County Schools (disambiguation)
• Beaufort Group, subdivisions of the Karoo Supergroup
• Beaufort War Hospital, Bristol, England
• Beaufort scale, an empirical measure for describing wind intensity