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Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other 2013 wetland system extents

Definition of Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

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2013 wetland system extent by Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other metadata
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Aquatic Conservation Assessment 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 173,289,025 310,742 1,205,575 4,240 514,247 39,134 63 2,846,039 88,535 2,583,648 7,592,222
Baffle to Fitzroy coastal region 418,492 71 77,144 177 85 247 < 1 2,773 5,971 478 86,947
Cape York catchments 10,777,744 2,120 246,120 5,383 182 262,328 305 87,331 603,769
Eastern Gulf of Carpentaria 30,296,090 9,025 228,495 3,251 5,709 11 283,943 2,442 667,936 1,200,810
Great Barrier Reef catchments 32,838,347 132,349 291,361 3,719 12,709 18,123 24 150,257 62,721 577,958 1,249,219
Lake Eyre and Bulloo basins 51,022,919 7,737 443,860 3,301 2 1,596,418 1,453 777,512 2,830,283
Queensland Murray-Darling and Bulloo basins 31,458,206 91,504 43,943 4,954 356,509 11,351 159,149 667,410
South East Queensland catchments 2,456,026 32,765 33,495 328 771 1,855 15 67,730 2,201 34,260 173,419
Southern Gulf catchments 8,546,795 6,844 299,623 1,408 2,854 84,991 898 204,646 601,263
Wide Bay-Burnett catchments 167,103 4,082 2,824 12,174 1 19,082
Wide Bay-Burnett Great Barrier Reef connecting catchments 5,307,305 28,328 25,254 17 13 1,909 11 28,916 1,193 74,377 160,019

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of Aquatic Conservation Assessments (AquaBAMM) and others.

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) Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other 2013 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2013/aca-bounding-area.html

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