| NEWSOUTHWALES | State on the east coast of Australia (3,5,5) |
| ANSWER | Australian state on the east coast capping monarch's response |
| PRADESH | Indian state on the east coast (6,7) |
| ANDHRA | Indian state on the east coast (6,7) |
| NORFOLKISLAND | Former British penal colony off the east coast of Australia (7,6) |
| NICOLASBAUDIN | Who was charting the coast of Australia when, in April 1802, he met Matthew Flinders off the coast of Encounter Bay? (7,6) |
| BOTANYBAY | An inlet of the Tasman Sea on the South East Coast of Australia (6,3) |
| SCORESBYSOUND | One of the world's biggest fjord systems, on the east coast of Greenland |
| THUMB | Bass & Flinders' tiny boat in which they explored the south-east coast of Australia, Tom ... |
| CORALSEA | Body of water off the northeast coast of Australia (5,3) |
| NEWGUINEA | Situated off the north coast of Australia, the world's secondlargest island after Greenland (3,6) |
| NORTF | Scuba site off the coast of Australia |
| NORTHREEF | Scuba site off the coast of Australia |
| TASM | Isl. off the coast of Australia |
| ARAFURA | Which sea lies between PNG and the northern coast of Australia (7) |
| DAMPIER | William, English navigator who explored the N.W. coast of Australia (7) |
| CORAL | Sea off the northeast coast of Australia (5) |
| NEWZEALAND | Island nation off the southeast coast of Australia (2 wds.) |
| TASMANIA | Large island off the southeast coast of Australia |
| REEF | Great Barrier ___ (formation off the coast of Australia) |
