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Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other 2017 wetland system extents

Definition of Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

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2017 wetland system extent by Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other metadata
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Aquatic Conservation Assessment 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) lacustrine (unknown degree of modification) palustrine (natural) palustrine (slightly modified) riverine
Total 173,289,025 316,554 1,205,038 4,478 514,162 39,269 60 2,844,385 89,763 2,577,568 7,591,278
Baffle to Fitzroy coastal region 418,492 71 77,124 177 85 247 < 1 2,770 5,971 478 86,924
Cape York catchments 10,777,744 2,369 246,117 5,383 182 262,324 305 87,329 604,009
Eastern Gulf of Carpentaria 30,296,090 9,405 228,492 3,251 5,713 11 283,337 2,786 663,857 1,196,853
Great Barrier Reef catchments 32,838,347 135,899 290,977 3,710 12,624 18,169 19 149,747 63,117 576,856 1,251,119
Lake Eyre and Bulloo basins 51,022,919 7,948 443,860 3,307 2 1,596,433 1,453 777,354 2,830,357
Queensland Murray-Darling and Bulloo basins 31,458,206 93,120 43,942 4,955 < 1 356,162 11,357 158,582 668,120
South East Queensland catchments 2,456,026 32,222 33,383 574 771 1,924 15 67,613 2,680 34,230 173,413
Southern Gulf catchments 8,546,795 7,038 299,623 1,408 2,854 84,989 898 204,643 601,453
Wide Bay-Burnett catchments 167,103 4,082 2,824 12,174 1 19,082
Wide Bay-Burnett Great Barrier Reef connecting catchments 5,307,305 28,481 25,239 17 13 1,918 11 28,836 1,195 74,238 159,948

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of Aquatic Conservation Assessments (AquaBAMM) and others.

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) Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other 2017 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2017/aca-bounding-area.html

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