| MATTHEWFLINDERS | British explorer who was the first to circumnavigate and map the Australian coast, in 1802-03 (7,8) |
| SCOTSMAN | Flying -, Sir Nigel Gresley's LNER Class A3 that was the first locomotive to clock 100 mph and the first to circumnavigate the globe (8) |
| FERDINANDMAGELLAN | Portuguese explorer, one of whose ships was the first to circumnavigate the globe |
| DAMPIER | William, English buccaneer who explored the Australian coast (7) |
| FAIRYPENGUIN | The bird Eudyptula minor, found on the Australian coast |
| SIRFRANCISDRAKE | The first Englishman to circumnavigate the world |
| MAGELLAN | Ferdinand -, Portuguese explorer who was first to circumnavigate the globe (8) |
| CAMERON | Verney, explorer who was the first European to cross Africa from coast to coast (7) |
| DAGAMA | Portuguese explorer who was the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India (5,2,4) |
| BURTON | Richard, English explorer who was the first to discover Lake Tanganyika in Africa in 1858 (6) |
| VASCODAGAMA | Portuguese explorer who was the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India (5,2,4) |
| SHACKLETON | Ernest ___, British explorer who commanded three expeditions to the Antarctic, during the first of which the south magnetic pole was located |
| LIVINGSTONE | British explorer who, in 1855, we presume, was the first European to see Victoria Falls in southern Africa (11) |
| CARTIER | Jacques, French explorer who was the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River, Canada (7) |
| DESOTO | Hernando, Spanish explorer who was the first European to cross the Mississippi River (2,4) |
| AMUNDSEN | Roald ___, Norwegian explorer who was the first man to reach the South Pole (8) |
| SCOTT | Naval officer and explorer who was beaten by Roald Amundsen in an attempt to be the first man to rea |
| SPEKE | John Hanning, English explorer who was the first European to reach Lake Victoria (5) |
| OATES | Surname of the British explorer who went with Scott to the South Pole and died "a very gallant gentleman" (5) |
| DEBRETT | John, bookseller who created a guide to the British peerage first published in 1802 (7) |
