Beaufort Sea references the Beaufort Sea in his popular Canadian Folk Song Northwest Passage (song). Beaufort Sea The Beaufort Sea () is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska, and west of Canada's Arctic islands. The sea is named after Sir Francis Beaufort, a hydrographer. The Mackenzie River, the longest in Canada, empties into the Canadian part of the Beaufort Sea west of Tuktoyaktuk, which is one of the few permanent settlements on the sea shores. The sea, characterized by severe climate, is frozen over most of the year. Historically, only a
Lousia Beaufort journals which are among the manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College. Also in the Library is a book of watercolours of antiquities which Beaufort dedicated to her brother Admiral Francis Beaufort in 1857. The journal, of which these are the illustrations, is at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Lousia Beaufort Louisa Catherine Beaufort (1781 - 1863 ) was an Irish antiquarian, author and artist. Beaufort was the daughter of Rev Daniel Augustus Beaufort and Mary Waller. Her grandfather was from the Huguenot community in London and moved to Ireland as chaplain to the viceroy. She had two sisters,