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Example sentences for: landfall

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USA Today and the Washington Post lead with the imminent landfall of Hurricane Floyd somewhere along the southeastern U.S. coast.
Antarctica was unknown to humans until American sealer John Davis made landfall in 1821.
For one thing, they dispute nearby San Salvador’s claim to be the landing place of Columbus; they still feel, as archaeologists and historians used to, that the explorer first made landfall on their island.
The sailors’ first landfall was on the little offshore island of Tanegashima, which has progressed from matchlocks and muskets to being Japan’s principal rocket-launching center.
This tiny patch of land, 63 sq miles in area, is at the center of a momentous turning point in history, for it was here that Christopher Columbus first made landfall in the New World, on 12 October 1492.