Drainage sub-basin 2017 wetland system extents

Definition of drainage sub-basin

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

2017 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)	lacustrine (unknown degree of modification)	palustrine (natural)	palustrine (slightly modified)	riverine
Total	172,799,332	316,583	1,087,331	4,318	513,927	39,016	61	2,839,797	83,786	2,576,281	7,461,100
Albert River	78,190	303	38			55		242	46	1,057	1,740
Alice River	1,292,574	66			112	13		22,944		8,116	31,252
Archer River	1,068,849	52	14,757			7		28,039		7,453	50,308
Baffle Creek	407,766	1,015	13,613		13	144	3	10,782	334	7,198	33,101
Balonne River	3,823,383	45,625			22	1,024		9,098	4,268	27,656	87,693
Barcoo River	5,301,482	1,186			43	678		4,055	107	52,305	58,375
Barker & Barambah Creeks	591,904	3,797				20		519	36	4,200	8,572
Barratta Creek	184,660	1,326	17,809	167	22	758	< 1	2,880	6,993	5,106	35,063
Barron River	208,639	4,350	995	< 1	111	112	< 1	307	116	3,991	9,984
Black River	105,519	761	1,040			14		422	45	3,438	5,720
Bohle River	36,891	156	2,519	3		7		200	577	952	4,413
Bowen River	944,748	2,185			64	309		262	12	28,104	30,937
Boyne & Auburn Rivers	1,303,251	2,862				146		436	100	13,871	17,416
Boyne River	249,301	2,075	1,657	8		4,226		4	36	4,001	12,007
Bremer River	202,824	1,561				58		1,560	139	1,687	5,004
Brisbane River	701,500	13,276	656	119		77	1	856	170	11,183	26,339
Bulloo River	5,203,638	418			20,396	128		149,859	272	23,339	194,411
Burrum River	119,898	1,197	1,298			50		3,486	132	2,776	8,940
Caboolture River	46,673	388	1,150			227	< 1	2,158	113	471	4,508
Calliope River	224,863	861	7,673	29	22	160	< 1	49	34	976	9,804
Cliffdale Creek	622,991	4	33,987			2		7,928		2,893	44,814
Cloncurry River	4,733,390	2,285				328		11,864	742	127,322	142,542
Coen River	311,186	46				3		1,026		2,926	4,002
Coleman River	521,726	19	4,599					8,021		8,240	20,879
Comet River	1,727,489	6,256			3,026	845	2	4,292	311	15,056	29,787
Condamine River	3,051,741	16,744			288	742	< 1	3,243	750	12,011	33,779
Coomera & Nerang Rivers	130,572	2,298	3,298			413	< 1	1,735	524	1,313	9,582
Cooper Creek	9,575,241	826			143,410	247	1	455,695	466	129,392	730,037
Curtis Island	57,804	10	14,318	112				941	4	174	15,558
Daintree River	210,458	8	3,291	3		< 1		2,303		2,064	7,670
Dawson River	5,068,741	10,334			2,277	1,934		9,817	1,231	29,304	54,898
Diamantina River	11,911,000	1,724			109,998	887		677,306	125	339,221	1,129,261
Don River	374,512	1,399	17,052	1,897		89	< 1	607	3,710	15,740	40,493
Ducie River	357,911	7	11,900					8,140		934	20,981
Dumaresq River	431,196	2,875				1		339	15	7,398	10,627
Edward River	756,724	68	14,877					41,292		2,922	59,158
Eight Mile Creek	162,505		5,441			2		3,722		473	9,638
Einasleigh River	2,435,365	1,313			408	401		20,085	65	79,543	101,815
Elliott River	74,063	1,177	1,067	8		31	2	4,253	48	338	6,923
Embley River	191,482	293	14,135					1,233		54	15,714
Endeavour River	218,630	134	2,686		81	12		2,571	32	4,101	9,617
Eyre Creek	7,155,781	809			160,050	177		361,071	70	72,154	594,332
Fitzroy River	1,143,110	9,031	28,619	46	503	1,064		8,490	8,693	14,179	70,626
Flinders River	5,187,311	1,719	40,903		743	293	4	18,534	203	64,925	127,323
Fraser Island	165,949		3,442		2,824			12,115		1	18,382
Freshwater Creek	10,693	350								131	482
Georgina River	7,245,744	1,285			894	247		53,548	156	90,063	146,191
Gilbert River	2,201,634	1,194	51,153		247	412	< 1	22,929	556	93,363	169,854
Gregory River	91,049	816	349			1		1,264	2	4,123	6,555
Hann River	966,394	10	20,207			2		23,377	3	7,133	50,732
Haughton River	222,395	589	13,926	198	70	327	< 1	1,482	1,687	8,846	27,126
Hay	279,520				5,797			63			5,860
Herbert River	987,310	1,451	13,823	2	462	206	7	12,594	1,236	27,770	57,551
Hinchinbrook Island	39,692		8,100					515		180	8,795
Holroyd River	532,582	20	2,879		< 1			9,895		3,361	16,156
Isaac River	2,232,467	7,205			440	1,272	3	3,752	477	48,522	61,670
Isis River	50,091	94	57					63		3,816	4,030
Jacky Jacky Creek	297,162		25,383		2,468			15,552		784	44,188
Jardine River	327,317	< 1	2,222					19,296		1,522	23,041
Jeannie River	362,572	11	16,716		1,605			7,091	11	3,195	28,629
Kendall River	498,108	2	2,699					11,516		1,732	15,948
Kolan River	290,501	6,442	1,516			238		486	34	5,022	13,739
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	5,754	33,045		182	2,206		29,698	676	87,576	159,138
Lockhart River	288,360	4	12,277		57			2,232		6,915	21,485
Lockyer Creek	296,991	1,633				431	1	811	280	7,341	10,498
Logan River	335,676	2,972	2,004	27		114	2	2,916	145	2,688	10,868
Lower Burdekin River	1,048,562	12,028	2,255		32	996		484	648	60,838	77,280
Lower Burnett River	566,660	4,939	1,084	8		881		633	32	11,153	18,731
Lower Mary River	677,690	2,084	4,220			391	7	6,538	397	9,516	23,153
Macintyre Brook	432,482	2,386				105		189	78	9,062	11,820
Macintyre & Weir Rivers	1,518,300	15,317			212	592		4,750	1,868	10,962	33,703
Mackenzie River	1,305,897	4,272			140	1,062	< 1	3,621	1,028	14,985	25,108
Maranoa River	2,003,528	1,451			26	326		1,278	99	5,183	8,364
Maroochy River	153,905	1,993	4,045	282	37	367	4	15,959	960	3,775	27,423
Mcdonald River	273,439		8,647					17,423		856	26,925
Mission River	266,896	933	22,660			141		15,852	248	448	40,282
Mitchell River	4,131,477	877	50,934		1,049	3,774		64,445	453	122,071	243,604
Moonie River	1,465,738	5,224			10	724		1,261	384	4,942	12,544
Moreton Island	17,858		117		175			1,255			1,547
Morning Inlet	173,004	304	33,591		1,056	19		1,061	18	3,472	39,520
Mornington Island	99,830	45	11,807					1,075		4	12,931
Mossman River	46,574	62	1,640	9		12	< 1	172	1	413	2,309
Mulgrave River	131,677	122	4,489	164	38		< 1	3,138		1,525	9,477
Murray River	110,739	327	8,180		2	2		5,312	36	540	14,400
Nicholson River	3,574,411	868	113,965			465		30,249	204	101,774	247,525
Nogoa River	2,770,589	21,919			126	1,104		2,195	283	29,307	54,934
Noosa River	195,578	125	8,838		249	28		33,347	11	1,598	44,196
Norman River	5,066,736	397	65,681		105	136	5	86,319	533	75,222	228,399
Normanby River	1,472,192	651	8,031		78	16		16,884	11	16,149	41,820
North Johnstone River	103,100	75	7		4	< 1		143	28	872	1,130
North Pine River	57,693	2,658	2,128	14		75	2	852	38	580	6,346
O'connell River	238,854	910	12,949	20		52	1	1,052	230	3,085	18,299
Olive river	205,474		3,922		1,073			4,422		1,376	10,794
Palmer River	842,363	405			108	146		3,472		14,178	18,310
Paroo River	3,523,770	246			18,896	100		65,545	683	18,122	103,592
Pascoe River	211,820		730					82		4,700	5,511
Pioneer River	157,470	1,792	745					439		4,320	7,295
Plane Creek	254,423	1,925	18,317	53	13	45		7,631	1,437	4,031	33,453
Proserpine River	250,002	5,145	12,482	11	2	8	2	6,835	1,650	3,354	29,488
Ross River	133,707	5,940	11,204	112		164		649	745	4,267	23,080
Russell River	67,063	1,531	625					5,311	5	523	7,994
Saxby River	1,009,107	70						7,641	198	10,788	18,697
Settlement River	106,685		6,896			1		3,040		2,921	12,858
Shoalwater	359,579	1,243	29,235					297	20,319	5,461	56,555
Skardon River	43,201		4,630					2,359		86	7,076
South Johnstone River	128,680	284	3,546	12		4		4,454	15	835	9,149
South Pine River	43,913	161	989	132		39		408	195	552	2,476
Staaten River	2,570,527	78	18,794		247	6		28,326	31	49,271	96,753
Stanley River	153,605	4,632				6	4	283	39	1,984	6,948
Stewart River	275,475	10	6,262					2,276		5,403	13,950
Stradbroke Islands	29,106	102	962		310	30	< 1	4,647	19		6,070
Styx River	301,068	1,326	26,416	849	26	88		860	7,388	5,043	41,997
Suttor River	7,394,868	25,068			1,005	2,639	< 1	11,207	1,216	118,930	160,065
Thomson River	9,510,070	2,113			21,998	1,084	< 1	44,454	529	94,289	164,468
Torres Strait Islands	57,023	93	5,328		2			618		663	6,704
Tully River	167,593	1,617	1,946		8	19		4,367	83	1,636	9,677
Upper Burdekin River	3,622,752	2,083			4,433	585	1	33,979	550	102,605	144,236
Upper Burnett River	859,183	2,593				14		166	74	6,154	9,001
Upper Mary River	270,143	1,464				2		138	6	6,070	7,680
Wallam Creeks	4,786,303	691			3,568	639		101,406	2,503	3,007	111,815
Walsh River	895,828	1,011			29	204		477	8	19,224	20,952
Warrego River	5,216,183	2,128			525	566		19,205	438	36,163	59,025
Waterpark Creek	182,282	116	25,320	33		57		8,866	2,284	5,520	42,195
Watson River	469,442	11	6,839					5,442		2,548	14,840
Wenlock River	755,519	6	10,321			< 1		17,574		3,783	31,684
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.