| ARCTICOCEAN | Name of the ocean encompassing the North Pole. (6,5) |
| SOUTHCHINASEA | Part of the Pacific Ocean encompassing an area from the Karimata and Malacca Straits to the Strait of Taiwan (5,5,3) |
| AUSTRALASIA | Region encompassing the Pacific islands |
| NADIR | Low point of polar atmosphere encompassing the end of the world (5) |
| ARCTICTRAIL | The ___ ___: The Quest for the north West Passage and the north Pole, 1818 - 1909 (Pierre Berton book) |
| HELEN | Female encompassing the French ideal of beauty? |
| ATTICA | Historical region encompassing the city of Athens and surrounding area (6) |
| NEAREAST | Region encompassing the Fertile Crescent and the Levant |
| COLDCOMFORT | Winning the consolation prize of a trip to the North Pole? (4,7) |
| LOBSTERSHIFT | Work period encompassing the early morning hours |
| ARNHEM | Region in northern Australia encompassing the World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park, ... Land |
| WLW | Acronym encompassing the Sapphic community |
| RICHARDBYRD | He made the first flight over the North Pole |
| EURASIA | Landmass encompassing the Urals |
| SANTASELVES | Work crew at the North Pole (5'1,5) |
| UMBERTONOBILE | Who, with the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth of the US, flew over the North Pole in 1926, completing the flight from Europe to North America? (7,6) |
| METRE | Unit of length originally defined as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a meridian through Paris (5) |
| EARLY | The E of DEW - the line of radar site that scan the North Pole area for incoming missiles |
| NAUTILUS | The American nuclear-powered submarine which sailed under the North Pole icecap in August 1958, under the captaincy of Commander W.R. Anderson, U.S.N. (8) |
| AMUNDSEN | Captain of Norge's flight over the North Pole in 1926 and first human to lead an expedition to the South Pole (8) |
