Drainage division 2017 wetland system extents

Definition of drainage division

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

2017 wetland system extent by drainage division
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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	312,347	1,072,703	4,127	514,415	37,530	2,827,770	80,634	2,429,351	7,278,876
Bulloo	5,203,638	414			20,125	126	149,967	253	16,667	187,551
Gulf	45,317,909	18,160	635,103		4,508	8,410	547,113	2,595	903,223	2,119,112
Lake Eyre	50,994,021	7,887			444,601	3,239	1,594,054	1,370	656,033	2,707,184
Murray Darling	26,254,125	89,306			23,580	4,670	201,997	9,973	135,469	464,996
North East Coast	45,025,770	196,580	437,600	4,127	21,601	21,084	334,639	66,443	717,958	1,800,032

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.