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Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other 2001 wetland system extents

Definition of Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

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2001 wetland system extent by Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other metadata
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Aquatic Conservation Assessment Total area
(ha)
Wetland area by system Total
wetland area
(ha)
artificial and highly modified intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural) intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (slightly modified) lacustrine (natural) lacustrine (slightly modified) lacustrine (unknown degree of modification) palustrine (natural) palustrine (slightly modified) riverine
Total 173,289,025 277,722 1,206,257 4,194 514,259 37,165 60 2,851,082 87,238 2,590,567 7,568,542
Baffle to Fitzroy coastal region 418,492 67 77,195 153 85 247 < 1 2,774 5,971 478 86,970
Cape York catchments 10,777,744 1,523 246,114 5,383 172 262,392 305 87,342 603,232
Eastern Gulf of Carpentaria 30,296,090 7,454 228,495 3,251 5,611 11 284,034 2,482 668,002 1,199,341
Great Barrier Reef catchments 32,838,347 117,083 291,915 3,710 12,709 16,660 21 152,210 62,656 580,818 1,237,781
Lake Eyre and Bulloo basins 51,022,919 6,870 443,871 3,271 1 1,596,612 1,411 778,265 2,830,301
Queensland Murray-Darling and Bulloo basins 31,458,206 83,643 43,942 4,867 358,208 10,286 160,624 661,571
South East Queensland catchments 2,456,026 30,930 33,535 311 771 1,550 16 68,380 2,101 34,594 172,189
Southern Gulf catchments 8,546,795 5,724 299,623 1,408 2,909 85,035 898 204,620 600,218
Wide Bay-Burnett catchments 167,103 4,082 2,824 12,174 1 19,082
Wide Bay-Burnett Great Barrier Reef connecting catchments 5,307,305 24,427 25,297 20 13 1,877 11 29,264 1,126 75,822 157,857

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of Aquatic Conservation Assessments (AquaBAMM) and others.

Disclaimer

Areas do not include marine or estuarine waters but do include estuarine wetland vegetation
(e.g. mangroves and tidal flats).

All statistics are approximate and generated based on data transformed to a customised Albers equal-area projection, thus allowing wetland extent change for different regions of Queensland to be comparable.

Areas may change over time as mapping approaches improve.

Totals may not match the sum of individually displayed figures due to the rounding of displayed figures.


This page should be cited as:

Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (2022) Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other 2001 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2001/aca-bounding-area.html

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