overlander noun2 •One who travels overland.Sarah was a nurse from Devon and an “overlander”, one of our group of 20 travelling across Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia in a Mercedes-Benz truck. — 1995 •(Australia) A drover who herds large groups of sheep or cattle over long distances.The overlanders are, nearly all, men in the prime of youth, whose occupation it is to convey large herds of stock from market to market, and from colony to colony. — 1862 formsoverlanders