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Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other 2005 wetland system extents

Definition of Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

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2005 wetland system extent by Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other metadata
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Aquatic Conservation Assessment 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 173,289,025 294,499 1,205,993 4,146 514,258 38,505 60 2,848,965 87,974 2,586,165 7,580,565
Baffle to Fitzroy coastal region 418,492 72 77,186 152 85 247 < 1 2,774 5,971 478 86,965
Cape York catchments 10,777,744 1,560 246,114 5,383 187 262,393 305 87,345 603,288
Eastern Gulf of Carpentaria 30,296,090 8,141 228,495 3,251 5,624 11 284,000 2,495 667,919 1,199,936
Great Barrier Reef catchments 32,838,347 124,144 291,725 3,678 12,709 17,760 22 150,967 62,650 579,160 1,242,815
Lake Eyre and Bulloo basins 51,022,919 7,357 443,871 3,283 2 1,596,520 1,453 777,978 2,830,464
Queensland Murray-Darling and Bulloo basins 31,458,206 88,217 43,942 4,912 357,878 10,969 159,644 665,563
South East Queensland catchments 2,456,026 31,237 33,507 299 771 1,683 13 68,185 2,081 34,462 172,240
Southern Gulf catchments 8,546,795 6,327 299,623 1,408 2,910 84,995 898 204,618 600,779
Wide Bay-Burnett catchments 167,103 4,082 2,824 12,174 1 19,082
Wide Bay-Burnett Great Barrier Reef connecting catchments 5,307,305 27,445 25,260 17 13 1,897 11 29,079 1,151 74,560 159,434

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of Aquatic Conservation Assessments (AquaBAMM) and others.

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) Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other 2005 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2005/aca-bounding-area.html

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