Drainage division 2005 wetland system extents

Definition of drainage division

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

2005 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)	lacustrine (unknown degree of modification)	palustrine (natural)	palustrine (slightly modified)	riverine
Total	172,795,463	294,181	1,088,192	4,008	514,023	38,264	60	2,844,376	81,996	2,585,244	7,450,345
Bulloo	5,203,638	397			20,396	128		149,905	271	23,344	194,440
Gulf	45,317,909	15,401	649,474		4,460	8,675	11	555,826	3,644	910,196	2,147,686
Lake Eyre	50,994,021	7,357			443,736	3,296	2	1,596,282	1,453	778,048	2,830,174
Murray Darling	26,254,125	87,809			23,548	4,785		207,987	10,697	135,929	470,756
North East Coast	45,025,770	183,218	438,718	4,008	21,884	21,380	47	334,376	65,930	737,727	1,807,289

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.