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Drainage division 2001 wetland system extents

Definition of drainage division

based on wetland mapping version 6.0 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) palustrine (natural) palustrine (slightly modified) riverine
Total 172,795,463 274,585 1,073,814 3,876 514,427 35,608 2,833,481 78,567 2,441,984 7,256,342
Bulloo 5,203,638 381 20,125 126 150,030 253 16,709 187,623
Gulf 45,317,909 14,022 635,106 4,508 8,448 547,635 2,538 907,299 2,119,556
Lake Eyre 50,994,021 6,788 444,612 3,212 1,594,227 1,328 656,942 2,707,110
Murray Darling 26,254,125 80,891 23,581 4,623 203,358 9,042 137,417 458,911
North East Coast 45,025,770 172,504 438,708 3,876 21,602 19,198 338,232 65,406 723,617 1,783,142

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 30 August 2024. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2001/drainage-division.html

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