Local government area 2013 wetland system extents

Definition of local government area

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

2013 wetland system extent by local government area
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Local government area	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	172,958,664	307,085	1,135,051	3,959	514,431	37,463	2,830,759	79,900	2,435,599	7,344,248
Aurukun	732,422	3	33,275				34,761		4,295	72,333
Balonne	3,107,355	45,225			1,562	826	8,903	4,055	17,046	77,617
Banana	2,854,892	6,784			2,199	1,140	4,930	749	16,794	32,596
Barcaldine	5,343,908	1,538			6,126	358	28,622	262	31,596	68,502
Barcoo	6,225,666	431			83,842	166	222,679	325	89,977	397,419
Blackall-Tambo	3,058,028	1,307				471	1,566	72	11,959	15,375
Boulia	6,094,500	653			9,230	136	56,199	198	54,834	121,250
Brisbane	133,702	1,510	3,004	269	175	137	2,886	360	1,844	10,184
Bulloo	7,323,473	476			104,361	133	368,258	246	44,015	517,489
Bundaberg	643,060	10,618	4,745	17	13	961	8,635	221	16,029	41,238
Burdekin	501,407	2,932	38,216	498	112	1,660	4,883	9,321	19,060	76,683
Burke	4,008,564	964	157,907			536	49,183	265	84,969	293,825
Cairns	169,322	2,094	5,673	165		4	5,421	10	2,152	15,520
Carpentaria	6,416,297	2,414	310,059		2,835	951	139,754	782	191,571	648,366
Cassowary Coast	468,770	734	24,201	12	10	19	15,350	137	3,784	44,247
Central Highlands	5,978,989	31,399			3,435	2,912	13,529	1,694	56,366	109,336
Charters Towers	6,832,301	17,111			16,420	921	45,350	586	216,236	296,624
Cherbourg	3,176	3					2		22	27
Cloncurry	4,800,047	2,310				682	7,568	147	112,381	123,088
Cook	10,563,820	2,400	114,458		3,759	329	170,069	295	83,942	375,250
Croydon	2,950,931	182				134	28,497	237	48,518	77,567
Diamantina	9,466,497	190			258,321	265	943,629	56	167,474	1,369,935
Doomadgee	182,048	3	13,450				2,900	3	1,063	17,419
Douglas	242,258	62	4,835	12		8	2,390	1	2,253	9,562
Etheridge	3,922,447	2,553			482	507	25,034	224	113,011	141,811
Flinders	4,122,976	1,421			1,702	653	10,635	381	32,293	47,085
Fraser Coast	710,304	2,355	20,325		2,821	429	30,320	465	8,651	65,366
Gladstone	1,046,688	3,890	51,570	33	22	4,470	8,952	373	11,903	81,213
Gold Coast	131,543	2,637	7,031			421	2,077	521	1,075	13,762
Goondiwindi	1,927,347	15,334			197	622	3,683	1,298	20,024	41,158
Gympie	688,750	1,854	1,317		43	23	14,806	18	7,780	25,841
Hinchinbrook	279,886	440	13,966	2		8	6,794	759	8,904	30,873
Hope Vale	111,037	14	1,261		1,600		6,285	11	1,065	10,236
Ipswich	109,316	581				40	994	70	1,293	2,978
Isaac	5,866,106	13,564	29,861	918	540	3,699	13,703	8,953	84,303	155,540
Kowanyama	251,607	26	12,089		6		9,734	2	13,051	34,908
Livingstone	1,170,132	5,881	69,439	33	121	215	15,144	27,311	22,124	140,267
Lockhart River	360,008	3	9,134		9		1,124		9,814	20,082
Lockyer Valley	226,928	745				383	697	159	5,158	7,142
Logan	95,787	344	158			41	1,205	69	1,064	2,881
Longreach	4,056,045	1,058			48	561	498	17	42,681	44,863
Mackay	759,329	5,009	29,052	54	13	93	5,788	1,432	14,623	56,064
Mapoon	48,778		5,661				5,616		256	11,533
Maranoa	5,871,241	4,433			30	1,416	6,886	629	22,723	36,118
Mareeba	5,336,639	1,947			449	3,987	23,930	121	116,447	146,881
Mckinlay	4,073,302	884				123	39,024	176	63,207	103,414
Moreton Bay	203,800	3,418	4,917	1	34	391	8,660	212	2,062	19,696
Mornington	120,483	45	16,532				1,322		4	17,903
Mount Isa	4,326,824	4,422				1,155	10,120	3	125,743	141,443
Murweh	4,069,886	965			881	484	19,726	797	32,547	55,401
Napranum	198,237		15,925				10,946		1,090	27,960
Noosa	86,999	458	628		206	24	10,259	11	2,951	14,537
North Burnett	1,967,052	6,161				272	624	108	18,841	26,005
Northern Peninsula Area	101,970	< 1	1,577		76		11,777		1,043	14,473
Palm Island	6,856	11	46			8	55		14	135
Paroo	4,762,843	684			6,713	210	124,202	2,254	9,443	143,506
Pormpuraaw	438,210	35	17,156				32,773		1,863	51,826
Quilpie	6,745,663	700			316	179	85,741	189	51,005	138,129
Redland	53,839	226	4,271		310	48	5,922	40	9	10,826
Richmond	2,658,427	737				88	12,442	286	25,374	38,927
Rockhampton	654,851	5,339	20,834	30	555	402	2,953	4,038	5,345	39,497
Scenic Rim	424,149	3,161				58	975	107	3,157	7,458
Somerset	537,365	17,013				13	161	132	8,428	25,747
South Burnett	837,856	5,515				144	394	37	10,105	16,194
Southern Downs	707,743	4,324			30	8	315	44	9,717	14,438
Sunshine Coast	226,350	3,090	2,571	31	3	247	12,341	458	6,071	24,813
Tablelands	1,138,089	6,559			2,110	272	14,338	959	22,507	46,745
Toowoomba	1,297,638	7,422			20	96	748	71	6,364	14,722
Torres	89,793	92	29,815		96		3,550		510	34,063
Torres Strait Island	47,773		17,930		2		472		470	18,874
Townsville	372,785	7,321	16,268	123		277	1,468	1,790	11,309	38,555
Weipa	1,015	9	9				13			31
Western Downs	3,794,332	10,214			286	1,223	3,502	899	13,600	29,724
Whitsunday	2,383,133	21,449	25,733	1,761	14	790	8,424	4,385	57,895	120,451
Winton	5,381,026	1,371			2,295	626	45,198	63	127,837	177,389
Woorabinda	39,303	24			5	6	246	5	599	886
Wujal Wujal	1,173								22	22
Yarrabah	15,569	3	152				2,202		44	2,401

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of local government areas.

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.