Drainage division 2005 wetland system extents

Definition of drainage division

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

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)	palustrine (natural)	palustrine (slightly modified)	riverine
Total	172,795,463	290,884	1,073,521	3,817	514,427	36,946	2,831,271	79,297	2,437,537	7,267,700
Bulloo	5,203,638	392			20,125	126	150,012	253	16,672	187,580
Gulf	45,317,909	15,393	635,106		4,508	8,451	547,501	2,551	907,236	2,120,746
Lake Eyre	50,994,021	7,329			444,612	3,215	1,594,139	1,370	656,666	2,707,331
Murray Darling	26,254,125	85,058			23,581	4,668	203,048	9,725	136,471	462,551
North East Coast	45,025,770	182,711	438,415	3,817	21,601	20,486	336,571	65,399	720,491	1,789,492

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.