Anthony Hunt (Royal Navy officer, died 1795)

Captain Anthony Hunt (died 1795) was a Royal Navy officer.

[1] He commanded the garrison on Sanders Island during a dispute over sovereignty of the remote territory with a Spanish schooner: events which precipitated the Capture of Port Egmont by the Spanish Empire and the Falklands Crisis of 1770.

An exchange of letters followed where each side asserted sovereignty and demanded the other depart.

Hunt stated categorically that the Falkland Islands belonged to Britain and demanded that the Spanish leave.

These events precipitated the Capture of Port Egmont and the Falklands Crisis of 1770.