landfall
Ship finally docks
Landfall is the moment when a ship or aircraft reaches land after a journey over water, or when a storm moves from sea onto shore: The hurricane made landfall near Mobile.
The term emphasizes arrival at land as an event—Columbus's landfall in the Bahamas, a pilot's first landfall after crossing the Atlantic.
It can also mean the land itself that is sighted or reached.
Safe anchorage for ships
- portDocking place for ships
- dockMooring structure at water's edge
- berthSleeping space on transport
- mooringVessel's secured resting place
disembarkation · touchdown · pier · quay · wharf · jetty · anchorage · marina
Land-water boundary
- beachSandy waterside margin
- cliffVertical rock wall
- dunesWind-formed sand ridges
- estuaryTidal mixing zone
seashore · cove · bay · peninsula · delta · inlet · cape · promontory
Violent tropical windstorm
- typhoonWestern Pacific hurricane
- cycloneRotating low-pressure storm system
- eye wallHurricane's fiercest circular band
- storm surgeWind-driven coastal flooding
evacuation · flooding · destruction · devastation · wind damage · emergency · forecast · tracking
Traveling through unknown regions
- newfoundRecently obtained or discovered
- unchartedNot yet documented
- sightingInstance of perceiving something
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
voyage · explorer · settlement · colonization · continent · island · territory · New World
harbor
Safe anchorage for ships
mooring · disembarkation · touchdown · pier · quay · wharf · jetty · anchorage · marina · terminal
shoreline
Land-water boundary
estuary · seashore · cove · bay · peninsula · delta · inlet · cape · promontory · sandbar
hurricane
Violent tropical windstorm
- typhoonWestern Pacific hurricane
- cycloneRotating low-pressure storm system
- eye wallHurricane's fiercest circular band
storm surge · evacuation · flooding · destruction · devastation · wind damage · emergency · forecast · tracking · trajectory
exploration
Traveling through unknown regions
- newfoundRecently obtained or discovered
- unchartedNot yet documented
- sightingInstance of perceiving something
expedition · voyage · explorer · settlement · colonization · continent · island · territory · New World · circumnavigation
compass
Device showing cardinal directions
bearing · latitude · longitude · waypoint · piloting · mariner · dead reckoning · GPS · celestial navigation · plotting
- hurricaneshurricane, tropical cyclone, Andrew, Katrina, eyewall
- storm termshurricane path, storm surge, eye wall, rain bands, storm cell
- explorationexploration, explore, expedition, expeditions, voyage
- Age of ExplorationColumbus, Marco Polo, exploration, explorers, expeditions
- tropical weatherhurricane, tropical storm, tropical cyclone, hurricanes, tropical depression
- voyagesvoyage, sea voyage, cruise, passage, crossing
landfalldeparture
Act of going away
embarkation · setting sail · casting off · putting to sea · launch
- make landfallReach land from sea
- made landfallReached land from sea
- making landfallStorm reaching coastal ground