World Heritage area 2009 wetland system extents

Definition of World Heritage area

based on wetland mapping version 5.0

2009 wetland system extent by World Heritage area
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World Heritage area	Total area (km²)	Wetland area by system					Total wetland area (km²)
		artificial and highly modified	estuarine	lacustrine	palustrine	riverine
Total	360,400.2	29.2	1,001.6	13.4	278.7	78.8	1,401.8
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh)	100.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.1	3.1
Fraser Island	1,818.4	0.0	40.6	11.1	151.8	0.0	203.5
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia	599.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.0
Great Barrier Reef	348,933.7	7.8	808.2	0.7	28.9	26.1	871.8
Wet Tropics of Queensland	8,948.2	21.3	152.9	1.5	98.0	48.7	322.4

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of World Heritage 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.