(1) The first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water)
(2) The seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water)
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Arrival at the shore by ship.
We made landfall at the most god-forsaken, barren, desolate, and hellish location possible to image; and we were grateful, anything to get off that ship!