Hugh Edwards
William Hugh Edwards (29 July 1933 – 10 May 2024) was a Western Australian journalist, author and marine photographer who wrote numerous books on maritime, local and natural history and diving.
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Hugh Edwards
- Full name
- William Hugh Edwards.
- Born
- 1933. · Edinburgh.
- Died
- 2024.
- Nationality
- Australia.
- Occupation
- photographer, journalist and writer.
- Honours
- Medal of the Order of Australia.
- Languages
- English.
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William Hugh Edwards (29 July 1933 – 10 May 2024) was a Western Australian journalist, author and marine photographer who wrote numerous books on maritime, local and natural history and diving.
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Hugh Edwards (1933–2024) was an Australian journalist, photographer and writer. The journalist was born William Hugh Edwards in Edinburgh.
Languages used include English. Hugh Edwards received Medal of the Order of Australia.
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Life and career
William Hugh Edwards was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 29 July 1933. Edwards played a major part in the exploration of Dutch East India Company shipwrecks of the 17th and 18th centuries on the Western Australia coast. He was recognised as primary discoverer of the Batavia and Zeewyk. Edwards died on 10 May 2024, at the age of 90.
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His book Islands of Angry Ghosts on his expedition to the site of Batavia, lost in the Abrolhos Islands in 1629, won the Sir Thomas White Memorial Prize for the best book written by an Australian in 1966. It covers the loss of the Dutch East Indiaman, the mutiny and massacre on the island, and the retributions. Wreck on the Half Moon Reef is another of Edwards' books, on the loss of Zeewyk in 1727. Other titles include Shark – The Shadow Below, and Port of Pearls (on the north-west town of Broome and its pearling industry). Edwards' autobiography Dead Men's Silver detailing 60 years of diving, shipwreck discovery and salvage, was published in 2011. He lived in Perth, Western Australia and was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours, in recognition of his "service to Australia's maritime heritage through the discovery of historic shipwrecks, and as an author".
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- 1.Edwards, Hugh. Western Australian Museum.
- 2.Treasure from the sea. The Canberra Times. 37. 10,622. 13. 23 August 1963.
- 3.Western Australia Legislative Assembly 17 August 1994 Select Committee on Ancient Shipwrecks
- 4.National Centre for History Education The Batavia and Her Detectives
- 5.Quekett, Malcolm. Hugh Edwards was a shipwreck hunter, author and maritime history expert. The West Australian. 10 May 2024.
- 6.Mr Hugh Edwards. Australian Honours Search Facility.
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