Drainage division 2013 wetland system extents

Definition of drainage division

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

2013 wetland system extent by drainage division
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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	306,913	1,073,105	3,888	514,415	37,418	2,828,919	79,892	2,435,150	7,279,699
Bulloo	5,203,638	411			20,125	126	149,967	253	16,667	187,549
Gulf	45,317,909	17,438	635,106		4,508	8,412	547,385	2,574	907,332	2,122,755
Lake Eyre	50,994,021	7,694			444,601	3,233	1,594,036	1,370	656,237	2,707,171
Murray Darling	26,254,125	87,857			23,580	4,668	202,212	9,979	135,974	464,269
North East Coast	45,025,770	193,513	437,999	3,888	21,601	20,977	335,320	65,716	718,940	1,797,955

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.