Possible Clues:

• Breakwater protecting solitary adventurer
• Ground-breaker
• Nobleman pinning one on settler
• One's the first to look around the one on this
• Explorer, one given all-round support
• Trailblazer, ground breaker
• As a ground-breaker, I would need to be surrounded by support
• Trailblazing type has person in support
• Launch - one ramming coastal feature
• Mole embraced single early settler