In terms of area, which is the smallest continent?
Correct answer: Australia
Centenarian
Australia is the largest island and smallest continent in the world. period.
Timoteo
ChewyGazelle68623, if you're going to call Australia an island, then aren't they all still islands?
Player #85115643
TRUE CANADIAN Laurel, he didn't say Canada was America. he said north and south. Canada is in north America just like the USA.
Leebo13
Rick C, except for the first that it includes New Zealand which isn't part of any continent.
Old Fool
Timoteo, not unless you are using the 4 continent model:
Afro-Eurasia,
America (north and south),
Antarctica, and
Australia.
Otherwise, one or several of the continents would not be fully surrounded by water.
Old Fool
Although there is no universally agreed meaning of the team Continent, all of the various definitions agree that one of the (4, 5, 6 or 7) continents is Australia.
Which is the smallest of them.
ChewyGazelle68623
isn't it still an island??