| AMUNDSEN | Roald ---, Norwegian explorer and navigator, the first man to reach the South Pole (8) |
| ERIC | Norse navigator, ... the Red |
| ROALD | Norwegian explorer and navigator who was the first man to reach the South Pole (5,8) |
| ROALDAMUNDSEN | Norwegian explorer and navigator who was the first person to reach the South Pole (5,8) |
| VESPUCCI | Explorer and navigator from Florence, 1454-1512, who sailed to the 'New World' four times (8) |
| COLUMBUS | Christopher ___, explorer and navigator born in Genoa in 1451 (8) |
| FLINDERS | Explorer and navigator who sailed anti-clockwise round Australia, making maps that were still in use |
| SQUIRMER | Twister entitled man to reach round gentleman's bottom (8) |
| MCKENZIE | First white man to reach BC by land |
| HILLARY | Edmund ___, New Zealand explorer; first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest (7) |
| SCOTT | WWT Slimbridge founder who designed the WWF panda logo and created the IUCN red list; an Olympic sailing medallist whose father died attempting to be the first to reach the South Pole (5) |
| TARMACADAM | Car mat adjusted by first man to reach the surface (10) |
| KONTIKI | Raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands |
| AMERIGOVESPUCCI | Italian explorer and navigator, 1454-1512, who made voyages on behalf of Spain and Portugal (7,8) |
| SHACKLETON | Ernest, Anglo-Irish naval officer and explorer who attempted to reach the South Pole (10) |
| MATTHEW | British explorer and navigator who charted the Australian coastline, ... Flinders |
| ADAM | First man to reach a barrier (4) |
| NANSEN | Norwegian explorer and statesman (1861 - 1930) who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1923 (6) |
| CAPTAINJAMESCOOK | English explorer and navigator who circumnavigated New Zealand (7,5,4) |
| AMERIGO | _ Vespucci, 15th Century Italian explorer and navigator who had a continent named after him (7) |