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Water quality improvement plan area 2005 wetland system extents

Definition of water quality improvement plan area

based on wetland mapping version 5.0 metadata

2005 wetland system extent by water quality improvement plan area metadata
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WQIP area Total area
(km²)
Wetland area by system Total
wetland area
(km²)
artificial and
highly modified
estuarine lacustrine palustrine riverine
Total 426,203.3 1,653.3 4,192.5 239.9 2,889.7 6,773.6 15,749.0
Burnett Mary 53,022.2 281.2 231.6 5.7 299.6 711.7 1,529.8
Eastern Cape York 45,479.7 5.6 1,087.5 58.7 602.9 459.2 2,213.8
Fitzroy 156,105.3 652.9 1,302.3 83.3 821.4 1,776.4 4,636.3
Burdekin 140,458.3 526.8 644.2 84.9 683.8 3,282.8 5,222.4
Mackay Whitsunday 9,040.8 85.9 454.3 2.1 103.5 154.8 800.6
Wet Tropics 22,097.1 101.0 472.7 5.2 378.5 388.7 1,346.1

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of water quality improvement plan 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) Water quality improvement plan area 2005 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 1 February 2023. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2005/wqip-area.html

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