What do you mean by that?Do you mean as a popular activity well yes but part of the people nooo.
Boats. People have been using boats for thousands of years; cars were invented only in the later part of the 1800s.
Delaware was the first state to be part of the US. If you mean nation state as in countries, San Marino was the first.
To begin to answer your question, Brazil first is not an island is part of a continent. The first nation to discover Brazil was Portugal.
Merwoman
Like almost any other nation's submarines; they were just subs. It just so happens that Germans call their subs U-boats (under-sea boats).
The history of the Jewish nation.
The Imperial German Navy started the war with 28 U-boats with an additional 344 commissioned. In November 1918 no less than 226 boats were under construction. which equals 598
All of the boats commissioned for the First Fleet made it to Australia.
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by boats, white people on boats.
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on boats