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 that lives between sand grains on the coast of India. Its maximum length is only 4 mm. The smallest sea urchin, "Echinocyamus scaber", has a test only 6 mm across. "Patiriella parvivipara" is the smallest starfish, at only 5 mm across. The smallest vertebrates (and smallest amphibians) known are "Paedophryne amauensis" frogs from Papua New Guinea, which range in length from , and average . Previously, the title of smallest vertebrate was held by members of the fish genus "Paedocypris" of Indonesia. The one of world's smallest fish based on the minimum size at maturity is "Paedocypris progenetica" from Indonesia,