| VASCO | Portuguese navigator who led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497 (5,2,4) |
| DAGAMA | Portuguese navigator who led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497 (5,2,4) |
| DIAS | Bartholomew ___ (anglicised), the first navigator known to have rounded the Cape of Good Hope, in 1488 (4) |
| MAGELLAN | Ferdinand ---, Portuguese navigator who led part of the first expedition around the world (8) |
| PEARY | Robert ___, US Arctic explorer who led an expedition to find the North Pole in 1909 (5) |
| JOHNFRANKLIN | Rear admiral who led an expedition to the Northwest Passage in 1845 (4,8) |
| STANLEY | Henry Morton, journalist who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone (7) |
| VASCODAGAMA | Navigator who discovered the sea route from Portugal to India around the Cape of Good Hope |
| GAMA | Vasco da ___, Portuguese navigator who discovered the sea route from Portugal to India around the Cape of Good Hope |
| DEGAMA | Navigator who discovered the sea route from Portugal to India around the Cape of Good Hope (5,2,4) |
| FLYINGDUTCHMAN | Ghostly ship said to sail the seas around the Cape of Good Hope (6,8) |
| SOUTHAFRICA | Cape of Good Hope locale |
| BANTU | Group of African languages that includes most of the principal languages spoken from the equator to the Cape of Good Hope |
| HOPE | Headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa, the Cape of Good _ (4) |
| LEWIS | Meriwether, US explorer who, with Clark, led an expedition to explore the lands to the west of the Mississippi in the early 19c (5) |
| ENDERBY | --- Land is an Australian territory south of the Cape of Good Hope (7) |
| AFRICANLILIES | Hardy blooms native to the Cape of Good Hope |
| JUANCANO | ___ ___, Basque navigator who led the surviving ships of Magellan's expedition (1519-21) |
| FERDINANDMAGELLAN | Portuguese navigator who was the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean (9,8) |
| ICENI | Boudica's tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire |
