| FLINDERS | British explorer who mapped the Australian coastline (8) |
| VITUS | __ Bering, Danish explorer who mapped the Russian far east (5) |
| MATTHEW | British explorer and navigator who charted the Australian coastline, ... Flinders |
| STAFFORD | Ed, British explorer who walked the length of the river Amazon in 2010 (8) |
| MERCATOR | Man who mapped strange moon crater without working (8) |
| THESIGER | See right tampered with by British explorer (8) |
| MATTHEWFLINDERS | British explorer who was the first to circumnavigate and map the Australian coast, in 1802-03 (7,8) |
| SHACKLETON | Ernest ___, British explorer who commanded three expeditions to the Antarctic, during the first of which the south magnetic pole was located |
| OATES | Surname of the British explorer who went with Scott to the South Pole and died "a very gallant gentleman" (5) |
| CAPTAINCOOK | British explorer who led the first European visit to Australia and Hawaii |
| ROSS | British explorer who located the North Magnetic Pole in 1831 (4) |
| LONGITUDE | Mapped the line of the arc (9) |
| ABEL | Explorer __ Tasman, who mapped much of Australia |
| LIVINGSTONE | British explorer who, in 1855, we presume, was the first European to see Victoria Falls in southern Africa (11) |
| STRABO | He mapped the source of the Orinoco after raising one of London's hospitals (6) |
| SVEN | Hedin who mapped parts of central Asia |
| ESCAPISM | Getting away from reality, space is initially mapped out for such a flight of fancy. (8) |
| STURT | 19th century British explorer who searched for an inland sea in Australia (5) |
| ERNESTSHACKLETON | British explorer who, in 1909, reached a new furthest south latitude of 88 degrees and 23 minutes |
| RYLE | Astronomer Royal, 1972-82, who mapped distant radio sources such as pulsars and quasars using his technique of aperture synthesis (4) |
