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Drainage division 2013 wetland system extents

Definition of drainage division

based on wetland mapping version 6.0 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) 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.


This page should be cited as:

Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (2022) Drainage division 2013 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 18 March 2024. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2013/drainage-division.html

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