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Water Quality Improvement Plan catchment 2009 wetland system extents

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2009 wetland system extent by Water Quality Improvement Plan catchment metadata
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WQIP catchment 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 42,620,437 156,466 401,111 3,727 17,758 19,871 34 253,851 63,410 702,478 1,618,706
Abbot Bay catchments (Burdekin) 118,919 269 3,719 1,736 17 39 968 4,437 11,184
Alligator Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 20,918 105 997 32 2 240 84 280 1,740
Allingham Creek (Burdekin) 109,324 3 72 2,196 3,911 6,183
Andromache River (Mackay Whitsunday) 40,599 79 1 92 2 841 1,016
Annan River estuary (Eastern Cape York) 1,883 48 732 205 5 152 1,142
Annan River - lower, outside National Park (incl. Esk River, Hardwicke Creek) (Eastern Cape York) 18,005 13 32 8 24 25 653 756
Annan River - upper (above gorge) outside National Park (Eastern Cape York) 35,739 34 3 12 647 694
Annie River, Saltwater Creek and Fifteen Mile Creek (Eastern Cape York) 269,719 2 68 < 1 6,852 2 1,930 8,855
Baffle (Burnett Mary) 408,475 976 13,452 13 144 3 10,809 333 7,213 32,942
Bakers Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,822 152 957 2 6 351 49 115 1,631
Balclutha Creek (Eastern Cape York) 42,008 30 409 433 872
Barratta Creek (Burdekin) 116,808 718 3,482 22 43 5 1,226 1,331 4,267 11,093
Barron (Wet Tropics) 218,801 4,648 974 2 56 107 296 116 4,121 10,320
Basalt River (Burdekin) 286,199 80 28 2,821 4 6,253 9,186
Bathurst and Ninian Bays (Eastern Cape York) 24,974 7 < 1 7
Bathurst Bay draining creeks (incl. Muck River) (Eastern Cape York) 53,352 1,825 240 306 2,371
Belyando floodplain (Burdekin) 203,024 182 13 3,094 111 2,922 6,321
Black River (Burdekin) 147,723 1,095 3,220 11 27 693 607 4,475 10,128
Blackrock Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 23,930 154 1,622 4 31 2 231 2,045
Blacks Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 71,090 1,129 1,881 3,010
Bogie River (Burdekin) 227,541 1,066 12 131 33 14 10,161 11,418
Bowen River (Burdekin) 113,792 437 21 20 12 6,828 7,318
Boyne River (Fitzroy) 249,748 1,843 1,662 8 4,226 4 36 4,023 11,803
Broken River (Burdekin) 228,731 844 6,961 7,805
Burdekin Delta (Burdekin) 113,151 814 14,206 167 964 < 1 1,878 6,071 5,308 29,408
Burdekin River (below Dam) (Burdekin) 146,880 351 448 249 99 7,734 8,880
Burdekin River (Blue Range) (Burdekin) 272,356 302 98 209 79 10,369 11,058
Burdekin River (Dam) (Burdekin) 370,188 7,024 < 1 80 300 2 26,569 33,974
Burnett (Burnett Mary) 3,319,539 13,947 1,093 8 1,062 1,752 222 35,480 53,564
Burrum (Burnett Mary) 337,174 3,197 2,679 8 77 2 9,116 182 11,090 26,350
Callide Creek (Fitzroy) 766,479 2,943 67 30 719 61 3,760 7,580
Calliope River (Fitzroy) 217,716 568 4,389 4 22 29 < 1 49 34 975 6,070
Camel Creek (Burdekin) 157,869 90 772 26 108 6 4,336 5,338
Campaspe River (Burdekin) 674,667 358 490 134 < 1 1,029 164 25,808 27,983
Cape Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 15,032 20 4,830 < 1 1,078 56 24 6,007
Cape Flattery dune lakes (Eastern Cape York) 25,028 393 741 2,060 12 3,207
Cape River (Burdekin) 913,940 253 505 49 1,895 36 22,882 25,620
Carmichael River (Burdekin) 978,227 747 25 1,838 97 11,302 14,009
Carmilla Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 12,734 20 548 65 17 229 878
Chester River (incl. Scrubby Creek) (Eastern Cape York) 27,577 2 46 111 946 1,106
Clarke River (Burdekin) 646,961 148 47 92 2,349 18,833 21,468
Claudie River (incl. Deep, Swamp creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 15,927 < 1 165 70 628 864
Coastal creeks and dunes (north of Nesbit) (Eastern Cape York) 44,836 2 822 1,200 1,657 3,681
Coastal creeks (Eastern Cape York) 48,061 401 60 2,939 47 3,446
Coastal dunes north shore of Endeavour River (Eastern Cape York) 5,863 21 151 < 1 172
Comet River (Fitzroy) 1,729,049 5,976 3,026 845 4,433 311 15,135 29,726
Connors River (Fitzroy) 952,700 966 73 57 1,157 177 25,608 28,038
Constant Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 26,516 73 3,112 < 1 129 115 162 3,592
Curtis Island (Fitzroy) 58,456 14,498 112 941 4 174 15,729
Daintree (Wet Tropics) 210,670 7 3,273 3 2,289 2,053 7,625
Deighton River (Eastern Cape York) 67,273 10 91 617 718
Diamond Creek (Burdekin) 213,725 316 62 29 15 1,341 1,764
Don River (Burdekin) 120,812 389 1,702 14 15 < 1 60 45 6,363 8,588
Douglas Creek (Burdekin) 122,846 125 30 6 3,027 3,187
Dry River (Burdekin) 202,310 43 2 36 3,656 4,008 7,745
Eden Lassie Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 54,000 242 2,252 11 2 90 1,272 3,869
Endeavour River estuary (Eastern Cape York) 2,257 1,295 90 207 1,591
Endeavour River - lower (incl. Cameron, Poison creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 24,037 24 57 2 491 3 355 931
Endeavour River - north branch (incl. Isabella, Mango Tree creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 18,019 5 88 253 345
Endeavour River - right branch (Eastern Cape York) 38,771 < 1 1,054 630 1,685
Endeavour River - south branch (Eastern Cape York) 14,720 0
Escape River (Eastern Cape York) 32,685 457 214 3,455 4,126
Estuaries draining into Temple Bay, Hudson Bay (Eastern Cape York) 4,110 3,467 7 4 3,479
Estuaries (incl. Jacky Jacky, Escape, Harmer) (Eastern Cape York) 26,482 24,035 187 < 1 24,223
Estuaries (incl. Stewart, Rocky, other estuaries) (Eastern Cape York) 9,927 6,227 203 13 6,443
Fanning River (Burdekin) 110,772 31 20 195 1 5,680 5,927
Fitzroy River (Fitzroy) 1,133,947 8,174 24,281 46 503 1,051 8,530 8,107 14,214 64,907
Flaggy Rock Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,893 62 635 < 1 128 164 990
Fox Creek (Burdekin) 320,794 547 63 278 384 1,908 3,181
Gillinbin Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 13,107 32 425 2 1,699 398 2,556
Glenmore Creek (Burdekin) 160,911 40 54 6,847 6,941
Glennie Creek (Eastern Cape York) 36,334 244 244
Goanna, Breakfast, Whiphandle creeks (Eastern Cape York) 56,201 < 1 15 272 1,038 1,326
Gorge, Running creeks (Eastern Cape York) 41,345 20 991 582 1,594
Gray Creek (Burdekin) 169,505 120 29 87 5 3,600 3,841
Gregory River (Mackay Whitsunday) 31,028 274 2,150 137 51 588 3,200
Hann Creek (Burdekin) 185,299 85 34 2 1 7,003 7,126
Hann Creek (Eastern Cape York) 28,672 2 2
Harmer, Little Harmer Creeks (Eastern Cape York) 108,898 161 359 1,778 312 2,610
Haughton River (Burdekin) 232,550 539 16,082 280 70 324 < 1 1,960 1,853 8,869 29,977
Herbert (Wet Tropics) 984,235 1,438 13,659 2 98 201 7 12,583 1,238 27,715 56,942
Hinchinbrook Island (Wet Tropics) 39,543 7,945 514 178 8,637
Indian Bay (Eastern Cape York) 863 0
Jack River and Beattie Creek (Eastern Cape York) 148,352 1,963 1,958 3,921
Jacky Jacky Creek (Eastern Cape York) 31,041 46 5,753 135 5,934
Jeannie estuaries (incl. Horwick, Starcke, Dead Dog and other estuaries) (Eastern Cape York) 9,543 8,530 0 < 1 3 8,533
Jeannie River (Eastern Cape York) 46,942 100 28 710 838
Johnstone (Wet Tropics) 232,153 362 3,550 12 4 4 4,650 43 1,709 10,333
Kangaroo River and coastal creeks (Eastern Cape York) 28,105 13 290 997 1,299
Keelbottom Creek (Burdekin) 164,284 88 51 98 6 5,258 5,502
Kennedy Inlet / Newcastle Bay (Eastern Cape York) 24,824 405 16 62 483
Kennedy River and Little Kennedy Creek (Eastern Cape York) 253,270 21 14 3,285 1,766 5,086
Kirk River (Burdekin) 135,590 149 47 8,227 8,423
Kolan (Burnett Mary) 290,449 6,424 1,523 235 518 35 5,039 13,774
Landers Creek (Burdekin) 106,730 47 20 25 82 5,292 5,467
Laura River (incl. Mosman River, Kennedy Creek) (Eastern Cape York) 203,164 272 657 925 1,854
Lethebrook (Mackay Whitsunday) 37,352 190 694 4 2,535 94 494 4,011
Little Bowen River (Burdekin) 147,193 25 64 10 47 2,478 2,623
Little Laura River (incl. Shepherd, Pine Tree creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 89,372 52 683 11 990 1,737
Lloyd Bay (Eastern Cape York) 5,422 518 518
Lockhart, Claudie and adjacent estuaries (Eastern Cape York) 9,537 7,782 11 26 7,819
Lockhart River (incl. Eden, Arroto and Scrubby creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 82,829 6 9 343 2,875 3,233
Lockhart town and surrounds (incl. dunes) (Eastern Cape York) 4,018 69 < 1 370 440
Logan Creek (Burdekin) 403,627 1,123 151 59 13 1,967 3,313
Lolworth Creek (Burdekin) 350,352 19 1,081 19 8,955 31 5,090 15,195
Lower Cape River (Burdekin) 298,561 6,979 11 9 154 142 5,380 12,675
Lower Dawson River (Fitzroy) 1,991,424 4,804 159 777 6,532 914 11,113 24,300
Lower Isaac River (Fitzroy) 272,514 460 170 491 21 4,234 5,376
Lower Suttor River (Burdekin) 268,899 4,016 81 297 8 7,275 11,677
Mackay City (Mackay Whitsunday) 17,126 33 1,579 5 569 74 213 2,473
Mackenzie River (Fitzroy) 1,297,741 3,249 140 1,032 < 1 3,643 1,008 15,161 24,234
Margaret Bay (Eastern Cape York) 833 3 3
Marion Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 11,201 84 674 20 139 348 1,264
Marrett River, Sandalwood and Birthday creeks (Eastern Cape York) 134,518 14 1,159 157 1,331
Mary (Burnett Mary) 946,581 3,477 4,286 392 7 6,645 402 15,612 30,821
Massy Creek, Rocky River (Eastern Cape York) 48,405 < 1 1 349 2,621 2,972
McIvor, Morgan rivers and coastal creeks (Eastern Cape York) 58,801 501 321 2,999 637 4,458
Middle and West Claudie Rivers (incl. Gordon, Scrubby creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 17,736 0
Mistake Creek (Burdekin) 587,421 1,196 1,399 867 15 7,418 10,895
Morehead River, Healy Creek and Hann River (Eastern Cape York) 425,766 3 8,242 2,864 11,108
Mossman (Wet Tropics) 47,285 64 1,609 9 12 < 1 186 1 424 2,306
Mulgrave-Russell (Wet Tropics) 198,027 1,669 5,017 164 94 < 1 8,400 5 2,041 17,390
Murray Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 46,631 116 2,793 45 659 3,614
Murray (Wet Tropics) 110,656 327 8,667 2 2 5,263 34 547 14,842
Myrtle Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 29,516 18 1,498 705 13 295 2,529
Native Companion Creek (Burdekin) 548,474 397 48 287 8 2,925 3,665
Nesbit, Chester and adjacent estuaries (Eastern Cape York) 4,338 3,026 37 84 3,147
Nesbit River (incl. Leo Creek) (Eastern Cape York) 68,059 < 1 444 121 565
Nogoa River (Fitzroy) 1,616,991 17,805 126 579 1,484 137 16,083 36,214
Normanby estuarine waters (incl. Bizant, Normanby, Saltwater and others adjacent Princess Charlotte Bay) (Eastern Cape York) 54,162 27,805 866 82 28,753
Normanby /lower Laura rivers (incl. Brown, Cabbage Tree creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 205,565 7 78 4,519 986 5,590
Normanby River - lower and Bizant River (Eastern Cape York) 105,992 401 5,365 2,730 8,496
Normanby - upper (incl. West, East and Granite Normanby Rivers, Bridge Ck) (Eastern Cape York) 290,818 180 1 2,469 6,838 9,489
North Jacky Jacky Creek – dune lakes (Eastern Cape York) 13,858 142 154 745 289 1,330
North Jeannie coastal creeks outside National Park (incl. Horwick River, Wakooka Creek) (Eastern Cape York) 110,554 5,269 44 628 1,058 7,000
North Kennedy River (Eastern Cape York) 191,510 1 4,122 1 1,438 5,563
Oaky , Wallace, Lyon creeks (Eastern Cape York) 33,909 5 574 579
OConnell River (Mackay Whitsunday) 48,766 338 592 15 25 2 315 29 808 2,124
Olive River estuary (Eastern Cape York) 751 470 101 571
Olive River (incl. Horseshoe, Scorpion creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 124,133 < 1 < 1 3,504 374 3,879
Pascoe - headwaters (incl. Little Pascoe, Fall creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 64,780 74 3,274 3,348
Pascoe - lower, outside National Park (incl. Tin and coastal creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 36,638 622 832 1,454
Pascoe - mid (incl. Garraway, Brown creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 31,243 266 266
Pascoe - mid (incl. Hamilton Creek) (Eastern Cape York) 11,269 206 206
Pascoe River estuary and other estuaries draining into Wemouth Bay (Eastern Cape York) 1,325 112 8 4 124
Pascoe - upper (incl. Yam, One Mile creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 36,658 115 115
Pelican Creek (Burdekin) 148,083 387 6 1 3,176 3,569
Pioneer River Main Channel (Mackay Whitsunday) 54,788 616 111 1,786 2,512
Plane Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 15,963 42 966 68 14 181 1,272
Port of Cape Flattery (land side) (Eastern Cape York) 9,437 10 10 521 348 11 5 904
Port of Cape Flattery marine waters (Eastern Cape York) 14,707 22 22
Port of Cooktown marine waters (Eastern Cape York) 3,067 11 11
Port of Quintell Beach marine waters (Eastern Cape York) 1,364 2 2
Princess Charlotte Bay (Eastern Cape York) 137,329 25 25
Proserpine River Main Channel (Mackay Whitsunday) 8,490 26 433 459
Reliance Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 10,662 10 1,544 5 66 10 92 1,726
Repulse Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 25,555 1,740 2 6 72 1,819
Rocky Dam Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 51,839 94 5,703 19 2,126 911 1,393 10,246
Rollston River (Burdekin) 144,919 103 35 52 6,039 6,229
Rosella Creek (Burdekin) 147,410 231 268 151 1,775 2,425
Rosetta Creek (Burdekin) 244,047 283 5 424 8 5,414 6,133
Ross River (Burdekin) 131,054 5,900 8,892 29 163 201 353 4,287 19,826
Running River (Burdekin) 110,538 15 1 3,600 3,617
Sandy Creek (Burdekin) 318,941 221 29 291 9 1,223 1,774
Sandy Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 49,935 1,203 832 13 < 1 532 27 712 3,318
Sarina Beaches (Mackay Whitsunday) 8,458 58 644 8 99 115 14 939
Sellheim River (Burdekin) 170,458 9,541 33 26 3,832 13,432
Shelburne Bay dune lakes (Eastern Cape York) 49,236 70 2,754 889 1 3,714
Shelburne Bay (Eastern Cape York) 25,164 24 < 1 24
Shoalwater Creek (Fitzroy) 361,610 1,055 29,789 5 291 20,319 5,413 56,873
South Annan coastal creeks outside National Park (Eastern Cape York) 15,542 560 264 205 1,029
St Helens Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,566 40 1,457 13 11 243 1,763
Star River (Burdekin) 199,399 58 14 157 7,260 7,490
Starcke River (Eastern Cape York) 50,093 < 1 66 38 990 462 1,557
Stewart River - headwaters outside National Park (incl. Little Stewart, Station creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 38,767 364 364
Stewart River, Terrible Creek (Eastern Cape York) 37,627 37 344 381
Stones Creek (Burdekin) 77,525 4 14 2,918 2,937
Styx River (Fitzroy) 299,512 1,278 26,241 849 26 83 859 7,364 5,045 41,745
Temple Bay and Hudson Bay (Eastern Cape York) 5,735 4 4
Theresa Creek (Fitzroy) 1,149,860 3,593 523 691 157 13,302 18,266
Thompsons Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,013 218 3,696 < 1 2 3,360 1,457 68 8,801
Trevethan Creek outside National Park (Eastern Cape York) 9,497 1 444 445
Tully (Wet Tropics) 168,340 1,595 1,946 8 19 4,473 79 1,641 9,762
Upper Belyando River (Burdekin) 583,589 381 180 156 129 2,585 3,430
Upper Burdekin River (Burdekin) 448,172 232 2,275 81 1 12,640 399 9,861 25,491
Upper Cattle Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,841 417 417
Upper Dawson River (Fitzroy) 2,315,530 1,496 2,137 1,131 2,748 229 14,500 22,240
Upper Isaac River (Fitzroy) 1,012,469 3,889 367 1,045 3 2,194 289 18,948 26,735
Upper Proserpine River (Mackay Whitsunday) 26,621 3,946 159 4,106
Upper Suttor River (Burdekin) 515,807 1,042 316 401 66 9,419 11,243
Upstart Bay catchments (Burdekin) 129,031 522 10,702 147 57 485 2,668 5,012 19,594
Walker Bay (Eastern Cape York) 246 10 10
Walsh Bay (Eastern Cape York) 189 1 1
Waterhole Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 21,131 44 1,348 3 196 24 85 1,699
Waterpark Creek (Fitzroy) 184,786 95 25,958 33 57 8,887 2,416 5,563 43,009
Weary Bay (Eastern Cape York) 540 0
West Hill Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,396 19 1,413 < 1 1,139 165 205 2,943
Weymouth Bay (Eastern Cape York) 4,352 9 9
Whitsunday Coast (Mackay Whitsunday) 19,560 36 683 2 16 8 14 759
Wilson Creek, Portland Road coastal creeks (Eastern Cape York) 13,471 1 373 3 27 215 619

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of Water Quality Improvement Plan catchments.

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) Water Quality Improvement Plan catchment 2009 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2009/wqip.html

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