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Answer for the clue "End of a voyage ", 8 letters:
landfall

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Arrival at the shore by ship. 2 The point at which a hurricane or similar storm reaches land.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Landfall is the time at which a storm passes over shore. Landfall may also refer to: Places Landfall, Minnesota , United States Landfall, also known as Kent Cottage , Brigus, Newfoundland Landfall Island , Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India Landfall Peak ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water) the first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water)

Usage examples of landfall.

Reuben Hawkshaw knew of no other plan, but as far as these went he was an excellent navigator, and was seldom many miles out in making a landfall.

Although the dragon-ships could not be seen from the beach, their crews must kave been able to see the snow-capped peaks that were their landfall.

He was the member of a First-In expedition to a world which, on Patrol charts, is named Lochan for the man who first made landfall there.

He spent a day in Landfall with Lotta, shopping for civilian clothes, then six days with his parents.

Blue Banks or to Noop or to Hermaness or any of the obvious places, where birds might be expected to make their first landfall.

On the day of their landfall they rowed hard for several hours to capture a frigate, but she was as bare of food as they.

Six million saft might have been a poor price for a Wu Morrison shuttle, but it was going to be enough for us to live like kings for the duration of our stay in Landfall.

As they drew closer and could finally pick out features of the coast, it was apparent that they had made landfall some miles north of Charleston Bay and Brandon brought the ship several points aport to correct.

An hour later, another medivac arrived from Landfall, this one with refrigeration chests.

When they had come abreast of the southmost cape, Cape Ito, Rodrigues had set the course West South West and had left the safety of the coast for the open sea, heading for a landfall at Cape Shinto two hundred miles away.

Senior Trader Shifty Stuart occasionally spat from the cud of tobacco in his cheek into the river, but be did not bother to look at the water, nor did he look back to the west, at Traderstown, which the vessel had just left His eyes were for the east, for Tworivertown, where he would shortly make landfall with his cargo of furs, hides, fine horn-bows, matchless felts and blankets of nomad weave, beautifully worked leather items and a vast assortment of oddments obtained by the far-ranging horse-nomads of the transriverine plains by trade or warfare from other folk farther west, south or north.

The howling wind, even hours before actual landfall, bowed the towering queen palms like ballerinas in a backbend, their fronds extended straight.

Dissa Banach and Ivor Purse had broken the Winter envelope and were about to make landfall.

They made their landfall at Yawata Saki, directly across the Chiba Peninsula from Tokyo Bay, with the sun just a few degrees off the horizon over Tokyo.

Because the same data you received yesterday is in locked-down launch configuration at fifty places in the Landfall dataflow, preprogrammed for high-impact delivery into every corporate stack in the Cartel.