| DAGAMA | Portuguese explorer; the first person to sail directly from Europe to India (2,4) |
| VASCODAGAMA | Portuguese explorer, the first to sail directly from Europe to India (5,2,4) |
| RANULPHFIENNES | British explorer, the first person to visit the North Pole and South Pole without flying |
| VASCO | And 8 Across Portuguese explorer who was the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India (5,2,4) |
| SLOCUM | Joshua ___, first person to sail singlehandedly around the world, from 1895 to 1898 (6) |
| GAMA | First person known to have sailed directly from Europe to India, Vasco da ... |
| TASMAN | Abel___ (1603 - 59), Dutch explorer, the first European to reach New Zealand (6) |
| BESSIE | Live on a ship, ie the Elizabeth (6) |
| BLYTH | Paratrooper turned yachtsman who, in 1971 in the ketch British Steel, became the first person to sail solo nonstop westwards around the world (5) |
| SIRFRANCISCHICHESTER | First person to sail single-handed around the world by the clipper route, in 1966-7 |
| CHICHESTER | Yachtsman who, in his vessel Gipsy Moth IV and with one stop, was the first person to sail solo round the world (10) |
| CHAY | --- Blyth, Scots yachtsman and first person to sail non-stop Westwards around the world (4) |
| AMUNDSEN | Roald _, Norwegian explorer, the first man to reach the South Pole (8) |
| HERNANDODESOTO | Spanish explorer, the first documented European to cross the Mississippi River |
| 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) |
| TRAIL | The route taken by flower children of the 60s from Europe to Kathmandu, Nepal & India, the hippie .. |
| MACKENZIE | Alexander _, Scottish explorer; the first European to achieve an east-to-west crossing of America north of Mexico (1793) |
| ERIK | ---- Thorvaldsson, 10th century explorer, the first European to settle in Iceland (4) |
| KNUDRASMUSSEN | Explorer, the "father of Eskimology" and the first European to cross the Northwest Passage by dog sled |
| SLAM | In 1988 Steffi Graf became the only person in the century to win a true Golden ..., ie the Australian, French, US and Wimbledon titles in the same calendar year as Olympic gold |
