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Drainage division 2009 wetland system extents

Definition of drainage division

based on wetland mapping version 6.0 metadata

Display areas in
2009 wetland system extent by drainage division metadata
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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 172,795,463 299,721 1,073,382 3,829 514,425 37,112 2,829,726 79,549 2,436,016 7,273,760
Bulloo 5,203,638 398 20,125 126 149,983 253 16,667 187,552
Gulf 45,317,909 16,754 635,106 4,508 8,398 547,465 2,563 907,269 2,122,063
Lake Eyre 50,994,021 7,611 444,611 3,222 1,594,046 1,370 656,253 2,707,114
Murray Darling 26,254,125 86,858 23,580 4,668 202,413 9,979 136,213 463,711
North East Coast 45,025,770 188,100 438,276 3,829 21,601 20,698 335,819 65,383 719,614 1,793,320

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.


This page should be cited as:

Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (2022) Drainage division 2009 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 30 August 2024. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2009/drainage-division.html

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