Dr James Hunter

James Hunter is the Australian

National Maritime Museum’s Curator of Naval Heritage and Archaeology. He received

his PhD in maritime archaeology from Flinders University in 2012, and MA in

history and historical archaeology from the University of West Florida in 2001.

He has been involved in the fields of historical and maritime archaeology for over

two decades and participated in the investigation of several internationally

significant shipwreck sites in the United States, including the American Civil

War submarine H.L. Hunley and the

Emanuel Point Shipwreck, a Spanish galleon wrecked in Pensacola Bay, Florida in

1559. James’ doctoral research explored the history and archaeology of torpedo

boat defences utilised by the colonial and early national navies of Australia

and New Zealand. He was appointed to his role at the museum in January 2015 and

has participated in several of its maritime archaeology projects, including

shipwreck surveys of Australia’s first submarine AE1 in Papua New

Guinea, the Second World War light cruiser HMAS Perth (I) in Indonesia,

and the search for, and identification of, the wreck site of James Cook’s HMB Endeavour

in the United States.