| BENDIGO | City in central Victoria, Australia, settled in 1851 after the discovery of gold |
| TASMANIA | Part of Australia settled, upon return, with great enthusiasm (8) |
| SCHEELE | Swedish chemist; one of the three claimants of the discovery of oxygen with Englishman Joseph Priestley and Frenchman Antoine Lavoisier (7) |
| GEELONG | Port city located on Corio Bay and the Barwon River, in the state of Victoria, Australia |
| VITAMIN | Any of various organic compounds, for the discovery of which Frederick Gowland Hopkins and Christiaan Eijkman were awarded a Nobel Prize in 1929 (7) |
| FLEMING | The Scottish bacteriologist credited with the discovery of penicillin (7) |
| LOCKYER | Norman ___, English astronomer whose spectroscopic analysis of the sun led to the discovery of helium (1886) |
| TIDDLER | Dirt led to the discovery of a small fish (7) |
| UMBRIEL | Moon of Uranus discovered by English astronomer William Lassell in 1851 and named after a character in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock (1712) |
| SEATTLE | US city in the Pacific Northwest, founded in 1851 (7) |
| ALBERTA | Province: one close to Victoria, Australia originally (7) |
| MAYERLINGINCIDENT | 43:A::Name given to the series of events surrounding the discovery of the bodies of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and his mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera in an imperial hunting lodge in Austria in 1 |
| CRYSTAL | Building designed by Joseph Paxton which housed the Great Exhibition in London in 1851 (7,6) |
| CROFTON | Township, Victoria, Australia |
| CORI | First woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her role in the discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen (surname only) |
| REUTERS | Founded in 1851, this British-based company is considered the most reliable and impartial provider of world news |
| ABERDEEN | Which city council had to rehome 500 tenants after the discovery of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete?(8) |
| BAPTIST | NZ church was in Nelson, in 1851 (7) |
| SEABORG | Scientist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for involvement in the discovery and investig |
| MEDICALADVANCEMENTS | 100th Anniversary! The discovery of Insulin in 1921 by Canadian researchers Banting and Best is among the greatest of these in the world: 2 wds. |