Beaufort
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, Victoria
- Beaufort Inlet, 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
- Ireland
- Luxembourg
- Lebanon
- Malaysia
- 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
- United States
- Beaufort, North Carolina
- Beaufort County, North Carolina
- Beaufort, South Carolina
- Beaufort County, South Carolina
- Beauford Township, Minnesota
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 1902-1910
- 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
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 Group, subdivisions of the Karoo Supergroup
- Beaufort War Hospital, Bristol, England
- Beaufort scale, an empirical measure for describing wind intensity
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