Francis Beaufort

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Francis Beaufort was a 19th-century Irish hydrographer and Royal Navy officer best known for devising the Beaufort scale for measuring wind force.

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Royal Geographical Society ("Sir Francis Beaufort")
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Beaufort Sea
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Robert FitzRoy
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