Drainage sub-basin 2013 wetland system extents

Definition of drainage sub-basin

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

2013 wetland system extent by drainage sub-basin
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Drainage sub-basin	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	172,799,332	306,910	1,073,121	3,888	514,415	37,409	2,828,917	79,892	2,434,793	7,279,345
Albert River	78,190	293	38			49	247	38	1,057	1,721
Alice River	1,292,574	60			112	13	22,566		8,123	30,874
Archer River	1,068,849	50	14,757			7	28,029		7,453	50,296
Baffle Creek	407,766	993	13,609		13	139	10,465	294	6,814	32,327
Balonne River	3,823,383	44,498			39	1,021	7,956	4,080	27,586	85,180
Barcoo River	5,301,482	1,154			43	678	4,399	107	52,555	58,936
Barker & Barambah Creeks	591,904	3,765				20	527	36	3,981	8,328
Barratta Creek	184,660	1,286	17,784	167	22	640	2,772	6,755	4,458	33,885
Barron River	208,639	4,331	976	< 1	111	69	279	141	3,914	9,823
Black River	105,519	757	1,038			11	375	45	3,424	5,650
Bohle River	36,891	142	2,522	11		7	267	574	943	4,466
Bowen River	944,748	2,042			64	305	273	12	24,961	27,657
Boyne & Auburn Rivers	1,303,251	2,837				146	434	100	13,872	17,390
Boyne River	249,301	2,077	1,641	5		4,218	4	36	3,812	11,794
Bremer River	202,824	1,565				54	1,564	134	1,501	4,819
Brisbane River	701,500	13,262	686	120		78	858	171	10,992	26,167
Bulloo River	5,203,638	411			20,125	126	149,967	253	16,667	187,549
Burrum River	119,898	1,177	1,288			49	3,412	132	2,735	8,794
Caboolture River	46,673	339	1,150			215	2,141	81	469	4,395
Calliope River	224,863	849	7,677	28	22	173	49	34	947	9,779
Cliffdale Creek	622,991	4	33,987			2	7,928		2,893	44,814
Cloncurry River	4,733,390	2,171				309	11,759	76	127,529	141,844
Coen River	311,186	46				3	1,026		2,926	4,002
Coleman River	521,726	10	4,099			4	8,020		8,240	20,373
Comet River	1,727,489	6,178			3,025	846	4,222	311	15,089	29,672
Condamine River	3,051,741	15,815			319	659	2,968	713	12,767	33,241
Coomera & Nerang Rivers	130,572	2,283	3,317			407	1,728	513	1,312	9,559
Cooper Creek	9,575,241	813			143,226	220	453,887	451	89,288	687,886
Curtis Island	57,804	10	14,427				748		174	15,359
Daintree River	210,458	8	3,275	3			2,276		2,011	7,572
Dawson River	5,068,741	9,182			2,371	1,769	9,674	1,179	27,914	52,088
Diamantina River	11,911,000	1,591			111,814	868	674,949	125	272,372	1,061,719
Don River	374,512	1,216	17,010	1,884		98	677	3,597	9,051	33,533
Ducie River	357,911	5	11,900				8,136		934	20,975
Dumaresq River	431,196	2,845				1	331	15	7,315	10,506
Edward River	756,724	56	14,693				41,291		2,922	58,962
Eight Mile Creek	162,505		5,441			2	3,722		473	9,638
Einasleigh River	2,435,365	1,305			408	200	19,710	65	80,072	101,760
Elliott River	74,063	1,176	1,060	8		29	4,214	48	332	6,867
Embley River	191,482	284	14,135				1,195		54	15,667
Endeavour River	218,630	141	2,685		81	11	2,568	32	4,134	9,652
Eyre Creek	7,155,781	750			160,027	162	361,056	70	69,814	591,879
Fitzroy River	1,143,110	9,381	28,641	30	676	496	8,437	8,712	13,490	69,864
Flinders River	5,187,311	1,681	40,903		741	298	18,543	201	62,897	125,264
Fraser Island	165,949		3,442		2,821		13,110		1	19,374
Freshwater Creek	10,693	350							128	478
Georgina River	7,245,744	1,258			894	247	53,548	156	90,020	146,121
Gilbert River	2,201,634	1,300	51,153		247	328	23,084	214	97,051	173,376
Gregory River	91,049	817	349			1	1,258	2	4,056	6,483
Hann River	966,394	7	20,173			2	23,378	3	7,133	50,696
Haughton River	222,395	542	14,156	198	70	325	1,601	1,457	9,007	27,356
Hay	279,520				5,797		63			5,860
Herbert River	987,310	1,337	13,789	2	462	200	12,148	1,198	27,326	56,463
Hinchinbrook Island	39,692		8,096				529		178	8,803
Holroyd River	532,582	18	2,879		< 1		9,895		3,361	16,153
Isaac River	2,232,467	6,407			440	1,272	3,691	410	48,062	60,282
Isis River	50,091	94	57			< 1	64		3,769	3,985
Jacky Jacky Creek	297,162		25,385		2,511		15,458		785	44,138
Jardine River	327,317	< 1	2,346				17,783		1,518	21,648
Jeannie River	362,572	11	16,716		1,605		7,090	11	3,116	28,549
Kendall River	498,108	< 1	2,699				11,516		1,732	15,947
Kolan River	290,501	6,437	1,476			228	475	36	4,700	13,351
L Creek	195,863	63	44,295		170	159	1,487		3,223	49,398
Lagoon Creek	296,688		12,487				2,071		2,274	16,832
Lake Frome	15,184				1,535		3			1,538
Leichhardt River	3,288,217	5,572	33,045		199	2,206	29,493	675	87,563	158,753
Lockhart River	288,360	4	12,277		57		2,232		6,915	21,485
Lockyer Creek	296,991	1,585				394	814	267	7,368	10,429
Logan River	335,676	2,971	2,018	< 1		115	2,943	102	2,465	10,615
Lower Burdekin River	1,048,562	11,880	2,255		32	990	523	610	55,419	71,709
Lower Burnett River	566,660	4,925	1,059	8		880	375	32	10,312	17,590
Lower Mary River	677,690	2,053	4,198			390	6,273	341	8,719	21,974
Macintyre Brook	432,482	2,384				102	138	79	8,838	11,541
Macintyre & Weir Rivers	1,518,300	12,711			197	530	3,598	1,231	11,063	29,330
Mackenzie River	1,305,897	3,647			140	1,056	3,891	1,030	15,265	25,029
Maranoa River	2,003,528	1,426			5	326	1,195	99	5,184	8,236
Maroochy River	153,905	2,682	4,032	31	37	330	16,194	510	3,790	27,605
Mcdonald River	273,439		8,667				16,403		839	25,909
Mission River	266,896	831	22,660			141	15,534	248	448	39,863
Mitchell River	4,131,477	858	37,111		1,050	3,774	60,792	106	120,616	224,306
Moonie River	1,465,738	5,256			10	718	1,095	359	4,937	12,376
Moreton Island	17,858		117		175		1,255			1,547
Morning Inlet	173,004	275	33,591		1,089	8	1,028	18	3,472	39,480
Mornington Island	99,830	45	11,807				1,075		4	12,931
Mossman River	46,574	62	1,634	9		11	165	1	404	2,287
Mulgrave River	131,677	123	4,210	164	38		3,090		1,470	9,094
Murray River	110,739	327	8,250		2	2	5,249	30	490	14,350
Nicholson River	3,574,411	868	113,958			457	30,258	204	101,780	247,525
Nogoa River	2,770,589	21,726			126	1,098	2,121	282	28,524	53,877
Noosa River	195,578	126	8,844		249	27	33,674	11	1,597	44,528
Norman River	5,066,736	363	65,686		105	141	86,308	533	75,625	228,762
Normanby River	1,472,192	541	8,020		78	15	16,884	11	16,080	41,629
North Johnstone River	103,100	72	7		4		116	28	844	1,070
North Pine River	57,693	2,662	2,138	14		75	883	36	587	6,396
O'connell River	238,873	871	12,981	20		48	1,056	178	3,086	18,240
Olive river	205,474		3,922		1,073		4,424		1,376	10,796
Palmer River	842,363	383			108	146	3,452		14,180	18,270
Paroo River	3,523,770	178			18,918	99	65,381	578	19,806	104,960
Pascoe River	211,820		730				82		4,700	5,511
Pioneer River	157,452	1,745	753				439		3,667	6,603
Plane Creek	254,423	1,882	18,244	53	13	45	7,200	1,549	4,037	33,022
Proserpine River	250,002	4,985	12,467	11	2	10	6,818	1,649	2,874	28,815
Ross River	133,707	5,936	11,243	112		164	588	745	4,234	23,022
Russell River	67,063	1,531	628				5,171	5	510	7,845
Saxby River	1,009,107	52					7,654	198	10,980	18,884
Settlement River	106,685		6,896			1	3,040		2,921	12,858
Shoalwater	359,579	1,211	29,213				288	20,334	5,446	56,491
Skardon River	43,201		4,630				2,360		86	7,077
South Johnstone River	128,680	275	3,511	12		3	4,294	15	830	8,941
South Pine River	43,913	162	1,069	135		36	415	200	522	2,540
Staaten River	2,570,527	67	18,794		247	6	28,288	29	49,271	96,701
Stanley River	153,605	4,633				6	260	42	1,899	6,840
Stewart River	275,475	9	6,440				2,149		5,403	14,000
Stradbroke Islands	29,106	80	994		310	12	4,625	31		6,052
Styx River	301,068	1,292	26,527	828	26	88	863	7,288	5,038	41,951
Suttor River	7,394,868	24,469			540	2,668	15,424	1,300	119,007	163,409
Thomson River	9,510,070	2,127			21,265	1,060	46,132	461	82,188	153,232
Torres Strait Islands	57,023	92	5,329		2		618		664	6,704
Tully River	167,593	1,592	1,891		8	15	4,379	83	1,557	9,525
Upper Burdekin River	3,622,752	2,027			4,395	565	33,971	550	111,238	152,746
Upper Burnett River	859,183	2,578				14	164	74	6,067	8,896
Upper Mary River	270,143	1,459				2	137	6	6,028	7,632
Wallam Creeks	4,786,303	648			3,568	637	101,135	2,386	1,703	110,076
Walsh River	895,828	969			29	207	477	8	19,168	20,857
Warrego River	5,216,183	2,094			525	566	18,412	438	36,417	58,452
Waterpark Creek	182,282	100	25,288	33		57	8,863	2,284	5,527	42,151
Watson River	469,442	5	6,837				5,435		2,259	14,537
Wenlock River	755,519	3	10,321				17,407		3,783	31,515
Whitsunday Island	16,059		595				16		< 1	611

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of drainage sub-basins.

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.