| LEMOYNE | Explorer who founded New Orleans |
| WYKEHAM | William of -; bishop who founded New College Oxford (7) |
| PHILLIP | Arthur, English naval commander who founded New South Wales (7) |
| CADILLAC | French explorer who founded Detroit |
| ERIK | ___ the Red, Norse explorer who founded the first European settlement on Greenland (4) |
| ERIKTHERED | Norse explorer who founded a settlement in Greenland in the 10th Century, and whose son Leif reached North America (4,3,3) |
| BALBOA | Explorer who founded the first permanent European settlement on the mainland of the Americas (in present day Panama) |
| WAITANGI | The Treaty of ___, 6 February 1840, between Britain and a number of Maori tribes, which effectively founded New Zealand (8) |
| ABELTASMAN | European explorer who discovered New Zealand |
| ERNESTSHACKLETON | British explorer who, in 1909, reached a new furthest south latitude of 88 degrees and 23 minutes |
| HILLARY | Edmund ---, New Zealandborn mountaineer and explorer who reached the summit of Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay in May 1953 (7) |
| ABEL | Dutch explorer who led the first European expedition to reach New Zealand, ... Tasman |
| COLUMBUS | Italian navigator and explorer who led expeditions to the New World (8) |
| JAMESCOOK | Explorer who sailed from England mapping the Pacific islands New Zealand and Australia from 1768 to 1779: 2 wds. |
| POLO | Explorer who charmed Kublai Khan |
| JUANPONCEDELEON | Explorer who gave Florida its name |
| CORONADO | Explorer who sought Quivira |
| SALLE | La ___ (explorer who encountered the Iroquois) |
| CAPTAINCOOK | Explorer who commanded HMS Endeavour and HMS Resolution |
| BAKER | Samuel White, English explorer who died in 1893 (5) |
