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Drainage division 2013 wetland system extents

Definition of drainage division

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

Display areas in
2013 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) lacustrine (unknown degree of modification) palustrine (natural) palustrine (slightly modified) riverine
Total 172,795,463 310,771 1,087,829 4,080 514,012 38,890 64 2,841,450 82,558 2,582,726 7,462,379
Bulloo 5,203,638 416 20,396 128 149,859 272 23,339 194,409
Gulf 45,317,909 17,282 649,474 4,460 8,714 11 555,703 3,590 910,241 2,149,476
Lake Eyre 50,994,021 7,736 443,725 3,314 2 1,596,180 1,453 777,582 2,829,991
Murray Darling 26,254,125 91,077 23,548 4,827 206,663 11,080 135,440 472,635
North East Coast 45,025,770 194,260 438,355 4,080 21,884 21,907 51 333,044 66,163 736,124 1,815,868

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 2013 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2013/drainage-division.html

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