Ramsar internationally important wetland 2001 wetland system extents

Definition of Ramsar internationally important wetland

based on wetland mapping version 5.0

2001 wetland system extent by Ramsar internationally important wetland
Download this table in .CSV format

Ramsar wetland	Total area (km²)	Wetland area by system					Total wetland area (km²)
		artificial and highly modified	estuarine	lacustrine	palustrine	riverine
Total	5,918.5	0.2	812.7	80.2	288.3	18.3	1,199.8
Bowling Green Bay	346.2	0.0	259.0	0.0	4.3	0.0	263.3
Currawinya Lakes	1,508.6	0.0	0.0	78.6	129.1	5.4	213.1
Great Sandy Strait	837.4	0.0	164.8	0.0	38.8	0.1	203.7
Moreton Bay	1,206.6	0.2	148.3	1.7	86.0	0.0	236.1
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area	2,019.7	0.0	240.7	0.0	30.1	12.7	283.5

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of Ramsar internationally important wetlands.

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.