Continent smallest continent. Earth's major landmasses all have coasts on a single, continuous World Ocean, which is divided into a number of principal oceanic components by the continents and various geographic criteria. The most restricted meaning of "continent" is that of a continuous area of land or mainland, with the coastline and any land boundaries forming the edge of the continent. In this sense the term "continental Europe" (sometimes referred to in Britain as "the Continent") is used to refer to mainland Europe, excluding islands such as Great Britain, Ireland, Malta and Iceland, and the term "continent of Australia" may refer
Smallest organisms 0.46 mm. The smallest land snail is "Acmella nana". Discovered in Borneo, Malaysia, and described in November 2015, it measures only 0.7 mm. The previous record was that of "Angustopila dominikae" from China, which was reported in September 2015. This snail measures 0.86 mm. The smallest crustacean, and indeed the smallest arthropod, is the tantulocarid "Stygotantulus stocki", at a length of only . Eriophyid mites measure 125 to 250 μm in length. Adult males of the parasitic wasp "Dicopomorpha echmepterygis" can be as small as 139 μm long, smaller than some species of protozoa (single-cell creatures); females are 40% larger.