Drainage division 2009 wetland system extents

Definition of drainage division

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

2009 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	303,191	1,088,017	4,021	514,022	38,465	62	2,842,566	82,294	2,583,693	7,456,332
Bulloo	5,203,638	402			20,396	128		149,875	271	23,339	194,412
Gulf	45,317,909	16,591	649,474		4,460	8,624	11	555,791	3,656	910,175	2,148,781
Lake Eyre	50,994,021	7,639			443,735	3,302	2	1,596,190	1,453	777,635	2,829,957
Murray Darling	26,254,125	89,850			23,548	4,785		207,076	10,989	135,694	471,942
North East Coast	45,025,770	188,709	438,543	4,021	21,883	21,626	49	333,634	65,924	736,851	1,811,240

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.