Drainage division 2001 wetland system extents

Definition of drainage division

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

2001 wetland system extent by drainage division
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Drainage division	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	172,795,463	277,589	1,088,460	4,056	514,024	36,923	61	2,846,492	81,260	2,589,645	7,438,508
Bulloo	5,203,638	385			20,396	128		149,922	271	23,381	194,483
Gulf	45,317,909	14,100	649,474		4,460	8,661	11	555,900	3,631	910,280	2,146,516
Lake Eyre	50,994,021	6,870			443,736	3,284	1	1,596,374	1,411	778,335	2,830,011
Murray Darling	26,254,125	83,247			23,548	4,741		208,299	10,015	136,873	466,722
North East Coast	45,025,770	172,987	438,985	4,056	21,884	20,110	49	335,997	65,931	740,777	1,800,776

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of drainage divisions.

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.