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Beaufort

This is obviously a good French-sounding name for a citizen of Lucerne, but it is at least a nice coincidence that the Beaufort Sea south of the Arctic Ocean, on the northwestern coast of Canada and Alaska, was named after a contemporary of Mary Shelley's, Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1857).


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