Australia (continent) meanings: travel writer Paul Theroux included New Zealand in his definition and others have used it for Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii. Another biologist, Richard Dawkins, coined the name "Australinea" in 2004. "Australia-New Guinea" has also been used. With a total land area of , the Australian continent is the smallest, and second-lowest human inhabited (after Antarctica) continent on Earth. The continental shelf connecting the islands, half of which is less than deep, covers some , including the Sahul Shelf and Bass Strait. As the country of Australia is mostly on a single landmass, and comprises most of the continent,
Smallest organisms chameleons ("B. minima"), 14–19 millimetres for male Mount d'Ambre leaf chameleons ("B. tuberculata") and 15–16 millimetres for male "B. micra", though females are larger. Of the aforementioned geckos, "S. ariasae" was first described in 2001 by the biologists Blair Hedges and Richard Thomas. This dwarf gecko is endangered and lives in Jaragua National Park in the Dominican Republic and on Beata Island ("Isla Beata"), off the southern coast of Hispaniola in the Dominican Republic. The world's smallest turtle is the speckled padloper tortoise ("Homopus signatus") from South Africa. The males measure , while females measure up to almost . The