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Water Quality Improvement Plan catchment 2017 wetland system extents

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WQIP catchment 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 42,620,437 164,471 400,507 3,742 17,673 20,120 31 252,796 63,878 700,623 1,623,840
Abbot Bay catchments (Burdekin) 118,919 324 3,716 1,736 17 39 968 4,424 11,223
Alligator Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 20,918 106 1,009 32 2 238 84 280 1,750
Allingham Creek (Burdekin) 109,324 3 72 2,196 3,911 6,183
Andromache River (Mackay Whitsunday) 40,599 84 1 92 2 836 1,015
Annan River estuary (Eastern Cape York) 1,883 48 732 205 5 152 1,142
Annan River - lower, outside National Park (incl. Esk River, Hardwicke Creek) (Eastern Cape York) 18,005 13 32 8 24 25 653 756
Annan River - upper (above gorge) outside National Park (Eastern Cape York) 35,739 33 2 12 647 693
Annie River, Saltwater Creek and Fifteen Mile Creek (Eastern Cape York) 269,719 5 68 < 1 6,850 2 1,930 8,856
Baffle (Burnett Mary) 408,475 1,023 13,439 13 144 3 10,745 333 7,198 32,899
Bakers Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,822 157 969 2 5 349 49 112 1,641
Balclutha Creek (Eastern Cape York) 42,008 1 30 409 433 873
Barratta Creek (Burdekin) 116,808 739 3,474 22 70 < 1 1,224 1,337 4,268 11,135
Barron (Wet Tropics) 218,801 4,692 974 < 1 56 112 < 1 297 116 4,116 10,364
Basalt River (Burdekin) 286,199 80 28 2,821 4 6,256 9,189
Bathurst and Ninian Bays (Eastern Cape York) 24,974 7 < 1 7
Bathurst Bay draining creeks (incl. Muck River) (Eastern Cape York) 53,352 1,825 240 306 2,371
Belyando floodplain (Burdekin) 203,024 194 13 3,094 111 2,922 6,333
Black River (Burdekin) 147,723 1,129 3,208 3 30 684 608 4,457 10,118
Blackrock Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 23,930 164 1,622 4 31 2 231 2,055
Blacks Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 71,090 1,136 1,880 3,017
Bogie River (Burdekin) 227,541 1,132 12 131 33 14 10,151 11,472
Bowen River (Burdekin) 113,792 451 21 20 12 6,828 7,333
Boyne River (Fitzroy) 249,748 2,075 1,660 8 4,226 4 36 4,001 12,010
Broken River (Burdekin) 228,731 844 6,961 7,805
Burdekin Delta (Burdekin) 113,151 821 14,187 167 964 < 1 1,879 6,084 5,303 29,404
Burdekin River (below Dam) (Burdekin) 146,880 351 448 196 206 7,729 8,929
Burdekin River (Blue Range) (Burdekin) 272,356 308 98 209 79 10,369 11,063
Burdekin River (Dam) (Burdekin) 370,188 7,027 < 1 80 300 2 26,499 33,908
Burnett (Burnett Mary) 3,319,539 14,191 1,085 8 1,061 1,754 242 35,379 53,720
Burrum (Burnett Mary) 337,174 3,299 2,678 8 83 2 9,086 182 11,052 26,390
Callide Creek (Fitzroy) 766,479 3,012 67 30 727 61 3,838 7,734
Calliope River (Fitzroy) 217,716 632 4,089 26 22 160 < 1 49 34 975 5,988
Camel Creek (Burdekin) 157,869 90 772 28 108 6 4,336 5,340
Campaspe River (Burdekin) 674,667 379 490 138 < 1 1,029 164 25,803 28,003
Cape Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 15,032 21 4,830 < 1 1,078 56 24 6,008
Cape Flattery dune lakes (Eastern Cape York) 25,028 393 741 2,060 12 3,207
Cape River (Burdekin) 913,940 258 505 49 1,895 36 22,880 25,622
Carmichael River (Burdekin) 978,227 764 25 1,821 108 11,198 13,916
Carmilla Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 12,734 45 548 65 17 228 902
Chester River (incl. Scrubby Creek) (Eastern Cape York) 27,577 2 46 111 946 1,106
Clarke River (Burdekin) 646,961 155 47 92 2,349 18,833 21,476
Claudie River (incl. Deep, Swamp creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 15,927 < 1 165 70 628 864
Coastal creeks and dunes (north of Nesbit) (Eastern Cape York) 44,836 2 828 1,200 1,657 3,687
Coastal creeks (Eastern Cape York) 48,061 401 60 2,939 47 3,446
Coastal dunes north shore of Endeavour River (Eastern Cape York) 5,863 21 151 < 1 172
Comet River (Fitzroy) 1,729,049 6,226 3,026 845 2 4,292 311 15,057 29,758
Connors River (Fitzroy) 952,700 1,148 73 57 1,157 177 25,445 28,055
Constant Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 26,516 76 3,108 < 1 128 115 162 3,590
Curtis Island (Fitzroy) 58,456 10 14,459 112 941 4 174 15,700
Daintree (Wet Tropics) 210,670 8 3,273 3 < 1 2,287 2,053 7,625
Deighton River (Eastern Cape York) 67,273 10 91 617 718
Diamond Creek (Burdekin) 213,725 320 62 29 15 1,339 1,766
Don River (Burdekin) 120,812 397 1,702 14 15 < 1 60 45 6,352 8,586
Douglas Creek (Burdekin) 122,846 129 30 6 3,027 3,191
Dry River (Burdekin) 202,310 43 2 36 3,656 4,009 7,745
Eden Lassie Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 54,000 267 2,252 11 2 84 1,257 3,872
Endeavour River estuary (Eastern Cape York) 2,257 1,295 90 202 1,586
Endeavour River - lower (incl. Cameron, Poison creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 24,037 26 57 2 491 3 353 932
Endeavour River - north branch (incl. Isabella, Mango Tree creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 18,019 6 88 253 346
Endeavour River - right branch (Eastern Cape York) 38,771 4 1,054 630 1,689
Endeavour River - south branch (Eastern Cape York) 14,720 0
Escape River (Eastern Cape York) 32,685 457 214 3,455 4,126
Estuaries draining into Temple Bay, Hudson Bay (Eastern Cape York) 4,110 3,467 7 4 3,479
Estuaries (incl. Jacky Jacky, Escape, Harmer) (Eastern Cape York) 26,482 24,035 187 < 1 24,223
Estuaries (incl. Stewart, Rocky, other estuaries) (Eastern Cape York) 9,927 6,227 203 13 6,443
Fanning River (Burdekin) 110,772 31 20 195 1 5,684 5,930
Fitzroy River (Fitzroy) 1,133,947 8,323 24,281 46 503 1,064 8,352 8,108 14,191 64,867
Flaggy Rock Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,893 62 635 < 1 128 164 990
Fox Creek (Burdekin) 320,794 702 63 278 384 1,784 3,212
Gillinbin Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 13,107 32 425 2 1,690 398 2,547
Glenmore Creek (Burdekin) 160,911 40 54 6,847 6,941
Glennie Creek (Eastern Cape York) 36,334 244 244
Goanna, Breakfast, Whiphandle creeks (Eastern Cape York) 56,201 1 15 272 1,038 1,327
Gorge, Running creeks (Eastern Cape York) 41,345 20 991 582 1,594
Gray Creek (Burdekin) 169,505 129 29 87 5 3,598 3,849
Gregory River (Mackay Whitsunday) 31,028 391 2,150 137 51 566 3,295
Hann Creek (Burdekin) 185,299 86 34 2 1 6,987 7,110
Hann Creek (Eastern Cape York) 28,672 2 2
Harmer, Little Harmer Creeks (Eastern Cape York) 108,898 161 359 1,778 312 2,610
Haughton River (Burdekin) 232,550 622 15,858 281 70 328 < 1 1,975 2,080 8,870 30,085
Herbert (Wet Tropics) 984,235 1,451 13,659 2 98 206 7 12,546 1,236 27,709 56,914
Hinchinbrook Island (Wet Tropics) 39,543 7,945 514 178 8,637
Indian Bay (Eastern Cape York) 863 0
Jack River and Beattie Creek (Eastern Cape York) 148,352 1,963 1,958 3,921
Jacky Jacky Creek (Eastern Cape York) 31,041 46 5,753 135 5,934
Jeannie estuaries (incl. Horwick, Starcke, Dead Dog and other estuaries) (Eastern Cape York) 9,543 8,530 0 < 1 3 8,533
Jeannie River (Eastern Cape York) 46,942 100 28 710 838
Johnstone (Wet Tropics) 232,153 359 3,551 12 4 5 4,645 43 1,707 10,326
Kangaroo River and coastal creeks (Eastern Cape York) 28,105 13 290 997 1,299
Keelbottom Creek (Burdekin) 164,284 90 51 98 6 5,260 5,505
Kennedy Inlet / Newcastle Bay (Eastern Cape York) 24,824 410 16 62 488
Kennedy River and Little Kennedy Creek (Eastern Cape York) 253,270 25 14 3,285 1,766 5,090
Kirk River (Burdekin) 135,590 174 47 8,213 8,435
Kolan (Burnett Mary) 290,449 6,434 1,519 238 508 35 5,022 13,756
Landers Creek (Burdekin) 106,730 51 20 25 82 5,292 5,471
Laura River (incl. Mosman River, Kennedy Creek) (Eastern Cape York) 203,164 317 < 1 657 925 1,900
Lethebrook (Mackay Whitsunday) 37,352 204 694 4 2,514 94 492 4,001
Little Bowen River (Burdekin) 147,193 25 64 10 47 2,478 2,623
Little Laura River (incl. Shepherd, Pine Tree creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 89,372 65 682 11 990 1,748
Lloyd Bay (Eastern Cape York) 5,422 518 518
Lockhart, Claudie and adjacent estuaries (Eastern Cape York) 9,537 7,782 11 26 7,819
Lockhart River (incl. Eden, Arroto and Scrubby creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 82,829 6 9 343 2,875 3,233
Lockhart town and surrounds (incl. dunes) (Eastern Cape York) 4,018 69 < 1 370 440
Logan Creek (Burdekin) 403,627 1,133 152 59 13 1,967 3,324
Lolworth Creek (Burdekin) 350,352 19 1,081 19 8,955 31 5,089 15,194
Lower Cape River (Burdekin) 298,561 6,983 11 9 154 142 5,380 12,679
Lower Dawson River (Fitzroy) 1,991,424 5,400 159 777 6,409 914 11,085 24,745
Lower Isaac River (Fitzroy) 272,514 540 170 495 21 4,228 5,453
Lower Suttor River (Burdekin) 268,899 4,026 81 294 8 7,195 11,604
Mackay City (Mackay Whitsunday) 17,126 49 1,581 6 531 74 213 2,454
Mackenzie River (Fitzroy) 1,297,741 4,315 140 1,060 < 1 3,521 1,019 14,979 25,036
Margaret Bay (Eastern Cape York) 833 3 3
Marion Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 11,201 84 674 20 138 348 1,263
Marrett River, Sandalwood and Birthday creeks (Eastern Cape York) 134,518 1 14 1,159 157 1,332
Mary (Burnett Mary) 946,581 3,534 4,286 393 7 6,627 403 15,587 30,836
Massy Creek, Rocky River (Eastern Cape York) 48,405 < 1 1 349 2,621 2,972
McIvor, Morgan rivers and coastal creeks (Eastern Cape York) 58,801 501 321 2,999 637 4,458
Middle and West Claudie Rivers (incl. Gordon, Scrubby creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 17,736 0
Mistake Creek (Burdekin) 587,421 1,440 1,399 867 15 7,256 10,978
Morehead River, Healy Creek and Hann River (Eastern Cape York) 425,766 4 8,242 2,864 11,109
Mossman (Wet Tropics) 47,285 64 1,608 9 12 < 1 183 1 419 2,297
Mulgrave-Russell (Wet Tropics) 198,027 1,653 5,018 164 94 < 1 8,394 5 2,047 17,374
Murray Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 46,631 125 2,793 45 660 3,623
Murray (Wet Tropics) 110,656 327 8,667 2 2 5,221 40 545 14,804
Myrtle Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 29,516 20 1,502 705 13 295 2,534
Native Companion Creek (Burdekin) 548,474 443 48 287 8 2,900 3,685
Nesbit, Chester and adjacent estuaries (Eastern Cape York) 4,338 3,026 37 84 3,147
Nesbit River (incl. Leo Creek) (Eastern Cape York) 68,059 < 1 444 121 565
Nogoa River (Fitzroy) 1,616,991 17,858 126 580 1,484 137 16,075 36,259
Normanby estuarine waters (incl. Bizant, Normanby, Saltwater and others adjacent Princess Charlotte Bay) (Eastern Cape York) 54,162 27,805 866 82 28,753
Normanby /lower Laura rivers (incl. Brown, Cabbage Tree creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 205,565 7 78 4,519 986 5,590
Normanby River - lower and Bizant River (Eastern Cape York) 105,992 401 5,365 2,730 8,496
Normanby - upper (incl. West, East and Granite Normanby Rivers, Bridge Ck) (Eastern Cape York) 290,818 224 1 2,469 6,838 9,533
North Jacky Jacky Creek – dune lakes (Eastern Cape York) 13,858 142 154 745 289 1,330
North Jeannie coastal creeks outside National Park (incl. Horwick River, Wakooka Creek) (Eastern Cape York) 110,554 5,269 44 628 1,058 7,000
North Kennedy River (Eastern Cape York) 191,510 2 1 4,122 1 1,438 5,565
Oaky , Wallace, Lyon creeks (Eastern Cape York) 33,909 5 574 579
OConnell River (Mackay Whitsunday) 48,766 358 590 15 25 2 311 29 795 2,123
Olive River estuary (Eastern Cape York) 751 470 101 571
Olive River (incl. Horseshoe, Scorpion creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 124,133 < 1 < 1 3,504 374 3,879
Pascoe - headwaters (incl. Little Pascoe, Fall creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 64,780 74 3,274 3,348
Pascoe - lower, outside National Park (incl. Tin and coastal creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 36,638 622 832 1,454
Pascoe - mid (incl. Garraway, Brown creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 31,243 266 266
Pascoe - mid (incl. Hamilton Creek) (Eastern Cape York) 11,269 206 206
Pascoe River estuary and other estuaries draining into Wemouth Bay (Eastern Cape York) 1,325 112 8 4 124
Pascoe - upper (incl. Yam, One Mile creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 36,658 115 115
Pelican Creek (Burdekin) 148,083 521 11 1 3,165 3,697
Pioneer River Main Channel (Mackay Whitsunday) 54,788 618 107 1,784 2,510
Plane Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 15,963 42 966 68 14 181 1,272
Port of Cape Flattery (land side) (Eastern Cape York) 9,437 10 10 521 348 11 5 904
Port of Cape Flattery marine waters (Eastern Cape York) 14,707 22 22
Port of Cooktown marine waters (Eastern Cape York) 3,067 11 11
Port of Quintell Beach marine waters (Eastern Cape York) 1,364 2 2
Princess Charlotte Bay (Eastern Cape York) 137,329 25 25
Proserpine River Main Channel (Mackay Whitsunday) 8,490 26 432 458
Reliance Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 10,662 12 1,544 5 66 10 92 1,728
Repulse Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 25,555 1,740 2 6 72 1,819
Rocky Dam Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 51,839 94 5,704 27 2,101 911 1,392 10,229
Rollston River (Burdekin) 144,919 108 36 52 6,037 6,232
Rosella Creek (Burdekin) 147,410 309 268 139 1,775 2,491
Rosetta Creek (Burdekin) 244,047 298 5 424 8 5,414 6,149
Ross River (Burdekin) 131,054 5,924 8,895 29 163 199 353 4,282 19,845
Running River (Burdekin) 110,538 19 1 3,600 3,621
Sandy Creek (Burdekin) 318,941 232 29 291 9 1,223 1,784
Sandy Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 49,935 1,208 846 13 < 1 538 27 709 3,342
Sarina Beaches (Mackay Whitsunday) 8,458 66 644 8 99 115 14 948
Sellheim River (Burdekin) 170,458 9,541 34 26 3,826 13,427
Shelburne Bay dune lakes (Eastern Cape York) 49,236 70 2,754 889 1 3,714
Shelburne Bay (Eastern Cape York) 25,164 24 < 1 24
Shoalwater Creek (Fitzroy) 361,610 1,251 29,789 5 291 20,319 5,412 57,067
South Annan coastal creeks outside National Park (Eastern Cape York) 15,542 560 264 204 1,029
St Helens Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,566 40 1,457 13 11 229 1,750
Star River (Burdekin) 199,399 59 14 157 7,260 7,492
Starcke River (Eastern Cape York) 50,093 < 1 66 38 990 462 1,557
Stewart River - headwaters outside National Park (incl. Little Stewart, Station creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 38,767 6 364 370
Stewart River, Terrible Creek (Eastern Cape York) 37,627 37 344 381
Stones Creek (Burdekin) 77,525 11 14 2,918 2,944
Styx River (Fitzroy) 299,512 1,326 26,216 849 26 83 859 7,388 5,043 41,790
Temple Bay and Hudson Bay (Eastern Cape York) 5,735 4 4
Theresa Creek (Fitzroy) 1,149,860 4,049 524 689 146 13,233 18,641
Thompsons Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,013 227 3,695 < 1 2 3,349 1,457 68 8,798
Trevethan Creek outside National Park (Eastern Cape York) 9,497 1 444 445
Tully (Wet Tropics) 168,340 1,618 1,946 8 19 4,457 79 1,631 9,758
Upper Belyando River (Burdekin) 583,589 445 180 156 129 2,569 3,479
Upper Burdekin River (Burdekin) 448,172 234 2,275 81 1 12,640 399 9,860 25,492
Upper Cattle Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,841 417 417
Upper Dawson River (Fitzroy) 2,315,530 1,929 2,052 1,131 2,714 255 14,384 22,464
Upper Isaac River (Fitzroy) 1,012,469 5,513 367 1,045 3 2,185 288 18,851 28,251
Upper Proserpine River (Mackay Whitsunday) 26,621 3,946 159 4,106
Upper Suttor River (Burdekin) 515,807 1,215 316 398 66 9,370 11,365
Upstart Bay catchments (Burdekin) 129,031 672 10,702 147 57 468 2,697 4,949 19,691
Walker Bay (Eastern Cape York) 246 10 10
Walsh Bay (Eastern Cape York) 189 1 1
Waterhole Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 21,131 46 1,347 3 195 24 80 1,694
Waterpark Creek (Fitzroy) 184,786 111 25,957 33 57 8,887 2,416 5,558 43,020
Weary Bay (Eastern Cape York) 540 0
West Hill Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,396 19 1,413 < 1 1,139 165 202 2,939
Weymouth Bay (Eastern Cape York) 4,352 9 9
Whitsunday Coast (Mackay Whitsunday) 19,560 37 683 2 16 8 14 760
Wilson Creek, Portland Road coastal creeks (Eastern Cape York) 13,471 1 373 3 27 215 619

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

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 catchment 2017 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2017/wqip.html

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