Landfall

Landfall has multiple meanings:

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• The place and/or time at which a hurricane or waterspout, or even a boat hits land. For hurricanes, this is typically the point at which the center of the storm's eye comes ashore.
• Landfall, Minnesota
• Landfall is the title of New Zealand's most important literary journal.
• Landfall is also the title of a New Zealand film from 1977.