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Water Quality Improvement Plan area 2013 wetland system extents

Definition of Water Quality Improvement Plan area

based on wetland mapping version 6.0 metadata

Display areas in
2013 wetland system extent by Water Quality Improvement Plan area metadata
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WQIP 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 42,620,332 159,915 400,458 3,584 17,479 19,185 254,230 63,099 685,382 1,603,333
Burnett Mary 5,302,218 28,312 22,902 17 13 1,898 27,755 1,100 71,383 153,381
Eastern Cape York 4,547,968 712 97,378 5,422 28 74,275 57 49,651 227,522
Fitzroy 15,610,532 61,131 126,612 922 6,827 11,074 42,722 41,448 169,289 460,025
Burdekin 14,045,826 50,286 61,930 2,371 4,940 5,782 56,347 15,616 341,809 539,082
Mackay Whitsunday 904,077 9,474 45,371 84 15 104 15,513 3,376 13,663 87,599
Wet Tropics 2,209,711 10,001 46,267 191 261 300 37,618 1,501 39,587 135,725

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of Water Quality Improvement Plan 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.


This page should be cited as:

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

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