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Drainage division 2001 wetland system extents

Definition of drainage division

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

Display areas in
2001 wetland system extent by drainage division metadata
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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.


This page should be cited as:

Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (2022) Drainage division 2001 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2001/drainage-division.html

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