| The sudden appearance of Europeans after the first landfall of Christopher Columbus in 1492 had a cataclysmic effect upon them. |
| Whakatane is the chief service town for the eastern Bay of Plenty and was the landfall for the first Maori arrivals. |
| Morison researched Columbus's second voyage, which had made landfall at Dominica and then gone north. |
| The storm's impending landfall has sent millions of people inland to escape fierce winds and a deadly storm surge. |
| The waves hammering the shore cause the bulk of the damage in a hurricane landfall. |
| Moreover, the ships transporting his cavalry were beset with contrary winds, and were never to make a landfall in Britain. |
