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What does landfall mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word landfall? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Arrival at the shore by ship.
  2. The point at which a hurricane or similar storm reaches land.
  3. (obsolete) The first land discovered after a sea voyage.
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On landfall she was hoisted from the boat, and the journey continued as before, on foot.
Whakatane is the chief service town for the eastern Bay of Plenty and was the landfall for the first Maori arrivals.
The storm's impending landfall has sent millions of people inland to escape fierce winds and a deadly storm surge.
The sudden appearance of Europeans after the first landfall of Christopher Columbus in 1492 had a cataclysmic effect upon them.
In 1492, Christopher Columbus made his first landfall in the Western Hemisphere in The Bahamas.
Said to be the original landfall of Christopher Columbus, it is graced with elegant Bermudian and colonial-style buildings.

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