Drainage division 2001 wetland system extents

Definition of drainage division

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

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)	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.