0 the first land that is reached or seen at the end of a journey across the sea or through the air, or the fact of arriving there:
1 a situation in which someone or something reaches land after being at sea:
Tropical storm Bonnie made landfall on Florida's Panhandle.
On landfall, the thin-walled clinker-built ships needed to be beached and cleaned out to avoid rotting, and the resultant midden provided a beachhead from which the introduced biota could disperse.
The islands must therefore be a prime target for anyone who wants a landfall in that part of the world.
Nevertheless, through all these months we seem to have been drifting along, rudderless, without a clear purpose and without any sure chance of landfall.
We could not, for instance, say that there would be no new pipelines and landfalls required after 1980.
We had discussions on problems connected with landfall, the carrying of oil over land, and so forth.
They have no landfall to make at night.
It happens that the landfalls near to the oil are in many cases in areas of high scenic beauty which require protection from this point of view.
A smaller number set out in perilous conditions in small boats hoping to be picked up by passing ships or to find landfall and refuge in neighbouring countries.
