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Study area 2001 wetland system extents

based on wetland mapping version 5.0 metadata

2001 wetland system extent by study area metadata
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Study area Total area
(km²)
Wetland area by system Total
wetland area
(km²)
artificial and
highly modified
estuarine lacustrine palustrine riverine
Total 873,863.5 3,133.5 8,538.2 499.9 6,276.6 13,797.3 32,245.5
Cairns Urban 623.3 4.7 47.9 0.0 5.1 5.6 63.3
Great Barrier Reef 437,354.2 1,552.0 4,346.4 244.6 2,897.1 6,801.4 15,841.5
Great Barrier Reef 2050 422,911.6 1,544.4 3,952.6 243.1 2,884.0 6,797.1 15,421.2
Great Sandy Strait 12,189.3 29.1 154.4 11.3 362.4 184.9 742.1
Pumicestone Passage 785.0 3.3 36.9 0.9 128.0 8.3 177.4

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

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 and Science, Queensland (2015) Study area 2001 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 13 April 2023. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2001/study-area.html

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