The shortest route, Langkawi nearest landfall to Lipe is about 37km / 20 nautical miles in a straight line (ocean currents will add...

The convicts had armed themselves with iron bars, intending to overpower the guard and sail the vessel to the nearest landfall.

In the other direction the nearest landfall is in the Bahamas, a hundred and ten miles to the northeast.

Chapter 16 The voyage from the coast where the cove lay to the nearest landfall in any of the Five Kingdoms normally took a week in good weather.

Someone told me that from certain places on this south shore the nearest landfall is Antarctica.

The nearest landfall to the south is in the Line Islands.

"We have to head for the nearest landfall."

The distance between the two countries still remains enormously more than 30 miles between the nearest landfalls on each side.

The camp site was chosen before the ship was locked in ice, and was not merely the nearest landfall.

The aircraft ran out of fuel after 1,841 miles, a new distance record for seaplanes, but still 200 miles short of the nearest landfall.