World Heritage area 2017 wetland system extents

Definition of World Heritage area

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

2017 wetland system extent by World Heritage area
Download this table in .CSV format

World Heritage 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	36,039,213	3,237	100,009	95	2,986	50	25,560	741	8,056	140,734
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh)	10,022								313	313
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia	59,492	< 1					1		192	193
Great Barrier Reef	34,893,371	1,118	80,797	95	16	48	2,375	741	2,637	87,827
K'gari (Fraser Island)	181,838		4,057		2,821		13,189		1	20,067
Wet Tropics of Queensland	894,491	2,119	15,156		149	2	9,995		4,912	32,333

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of World Heritage 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.