| HEYERDAHL | In 1947, this explorer sets sail on his Kon Tiki raft to prove this island's original inhabitants sailed from South America. What is name of this explorer? |
| MAORI | From July 10, 1947, this word replaced the word "native" in all New Zealand government dealings |
| VOSS | An ill-fated German explorer sets out to cross the Australian continent in this 1957 epic novel by P |
| SILENCEISGOLDEN | Design cell with noise baffled, to prove this? |
| THORHEYERDAHL | Norwegian anthropologist best known for his Kon-Tiki expedition |
| THOR | Norwegian anthropologist best known for his Kon-Tiki expedition (4,9) |
| CAVER | Explorer set watch on top of rock |
| GENOMES | Little people contain essence of parents, ie sets of chromosomes (7) |
| TOBACCO | Explorer set up business producing plugs, perhaps |
| BALSA | Rainforest tree which yields a lightweight wood, used to make Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki raft in 1947 (5) |
| GREENHITHE | Town on the River Thames in England from whence naval officer Sir John Franklin set sail on what would be a fateful 1845 expedition to the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic |
| OSLO | City where you can see the original Kon-Tiki raft |
| LAYARD | In 1849, this explorer returned to Mesopotamia and continued excavations at Nineveh and Babylon, discovering in the process the huge library of Ashurbanipal, probably the earliest library ever created |
| COOK | New Zealand's highest mountain was (re)named in honour of this explorer in the 19th Century. (4) |
| CADIGALRESERVE | Area of parkland in the Greenway in Summer Hill, named for the original inhabitants (7,7) |
| PLYMOUTH | Port from which the Golden Hind, Mayflower and Beagle set sail on famous voyages |
| INLANDSEA | The early explorers spent much time looking for this in the middle of Australia (the original inhabitants could have told them it just wasn't there) (6,3) |
| ADAMANDEVE | According to the Bible, they were the original inhabitants of the Garden of Eden (4,3,3) |
| AISLE | Set sail on Eastern passage |
| TAHITI | Papeete, on this island's northwestern coast, is the capital and administrative center of French Polynesia. |
