Drainage basin 2019 wetland system extents

Definition of drainage basin

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

2019 wetland system extent by drainage basin
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Drainage 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	172,970,898	318,018	1,152,971	4,393	513,943	39,109	61	2,840,865	83,955	2,575,050	7,528,365
Arafura Sea	26,297		8,637					251			8,888
Archer	1,380,035	98	14,757			10		29,065		10,380	54,310
Baffle	407,766	1,014	13,612		13	144	3	10,774	334	7,197	33,091
Balonne-Condamine	13,664,954	64,759			3,905	2,735	< 1	114,837	7,620	47,753	241,609
Barron	219,333	4,714	995	< 1	111	108	< 1	307	116	4,122	10,475
Black	105,519	766	1,040			14		421	45	3,438	5,724
Border Rivers	2,381,978	20,668			212	710		5,208	1,992	27,311	56,101
Boyne	249,301	2,075	1,657	8		4,226		4	36	4,000	12,007
Brisbane	1,354,920	21,102	649	116		571	6	3,505	627	22,180	48,757
Bulloo	5,203,638	418			20,396	128		149,859	272	23,339	194,411
Burdekin	13,010,930	41,572	2,255		5,534	4,534	2	45,924	2,426	310,298	412,545
Burnett	3,320,998	14,208	1,084	8		1,061		1,740	242	35,329	53,672
Burrum	335,101	3,294	2,772	8		83	2	9,064	182	11,042	26,446
Calliope	224,863	861	7,673	29	22	160	< 1	49	34	976	9,804
Coleman	1,278,450	88	19,476					49,313		11,161	80,038
Cooper Creek	24,386,792	4,136			165,451	2,009	2	504,200	1,102	275,980	952,879
Coral Sea	140,549	41	50,828	77	16	43		1,105	8	73	52,192
Curtis Island	57,804	10	14,318	112				941	4	174	15,558
Daintree	210,458	8	3,291	3		< 1		2,303		2,063	7,668
Diamantina	11,911,000	1,732			109,998	887		677,298	134	339,221	1,129,269
Don	374,512	1,417	17,052	1,897		89	< 1	607	3,699	15,691	40,451
Ducie	674,551	7	25,177					27,922		1,876	54,982
Embley	458,378	1,131	36,795			141		17,074	248	502	55,891
Endeavour	218,630	134	2,686		81	12		2,571	32	4,100	9,617
Fitzroy	14,248,292	59,143	28,619	46	6,512	7,283	6	32,019	12,075	151,158	296,860
Flinders	10,929,807	4,104	40,903		743	621	4	38,038	1,143	203,028	288,584
Fraser Island	165,949		3,442		2,824			12,115		1	18,382
Georgina	14,401,525	2,137			160,944	424		414,619	226	162,216	740,566
Gilbert	4,636,998	2,532	51,153		655	814	< 1	43,013	621	172,838	271,626
Haughton	407,055	1,917	31,735	365	92	1,086	1	4,351	8,681	13,945	62,173
Hay	279,520				5,797			63			5,860
Herbert	987,310	1,438	13,823	2	462	206	7	12,590	1,249	27,768	57,545
Hinchinbrook Island	39,692		8,100					515		180	8,795
Holroyd	1,030,690	26	5,578		< 1			21,410		5,092	32,108
Jacky Jacky	297,162		25,383		2,468			15,552		784	44,188
Jardine	327,317	< 1	2,222					19,296		1,522	23,041
Jeannie	362,572	11	16,716		1,605			7,091	11	3,195	28,629
Johnstone	231,781	359	3,553	12	4	5		4,596	43	1,707	10,279
Kolan	290,501	6,437	1,516			238		484	34	5,018	13,729
Lake Frome	15,184				1,535			3			1,538
Leichhardt	3,288,217	5,754	33,045		182	2,206		29,698	676	87,576	159,138
Lockhart	288,360	4	12,277		57			2,232		6,915	21,485
Logan-Albert	413,866	3,278	2,042	27		169	2	3,156	191	3,744	12,608
Maroochy	153,905	1,948	4,043	282	37	382	4	15,851	1,042	3,763	27,353
Mary	947,833	3,593	4,220			393	7	6,672	403	15,549	30,836
Mitchell	7,162,243	2,412	50,934		1,298	4,139		91,337	461	163,562	314,144
Moonie	1,465,738	5,228			10	726		1,260	384	4,893	12,501
Moreton Bay Islands	57,057	216	7,297		485	35	< 1	6,329	19		14,381
Morning	368,867	374	77,886		1,226	178		2,548	18	6,695	88,924
Mornington Island	99,830	45	11,807					1,075		4	12,931
Mossman	46,574	85	1,639	9		12	< 1	172	1	413	2,332
Mulgrave-Russell	198,740	1,660	5,114	164	38		< 1	8,448	5	2,048	17,477
Murray	110,739	327	8,180		2	2		5,307	36	540	14,395
Nicholson	3,574,411	868	113,965			465		30,249	204	101,774	247,525
Noosa	195,578	125	8,838		249	28		33,328	11	1,595	44,175
Norman	5,066,736	406	65,677		105	136	5	86,315	533	75,222	228,400
Normanby	2,438,587	668	28,238		78	18		40,261	14	23,282	92,560
O'Connell	238,854	918	12,948	20		53	1	1,052	230	3,084	18,306
Olive-Pascoe	417,294		4,652		1,073			4,504		6,076	16,305
Paroo	3,523,770	254			18,896	100		65,545	683	18,119	103,596
Pine	148,279	3,210	4,264	146		339	2	3,404	348	1,601	13,314
Pioneer	157,470	1,793	744			< 1		439		4,319	7,295
Plane	254,423	1,935	18,317	53	13	48		7,618	1,437	4,029	33,450
Proserpine	250,002	5,152	12,483	11	2	8	2	6,836	1,630	3,352	29,476
Ross	170,598	6,099	13,723	114		172		848	1,321	5,210	27,488
Settlement	1,188,868	4	58,810			5		16,762		8,561	84,142
Shoalwater	359,579	1,235	29,235					297	20,319	5,461	56,546
South Coast	130,572	2,300	3,296			414	< 1	1,728	524	1,311	9,573
Staaten	2,570,527	83	18,794		247	6		28,325	31	49,271	96,757
Stewart	275,475	10	6,262					2,276		5,403	13,950
Styx	301,068	1,326	26,411	849	26	91	< 1	860	7,392	5,043	41,998
Torres Strait Islands	57,023	93	5,328		2			618		663	6,704
Tully	167,593	1,617	1,946		8	19		4,360	83	1,636	9,670
Warrego	5,216,183	2,128			525	566		19,163	438	35,833	58,652
Waterpark	182,282	116	25,320	33		57		8,862	2,284	5,518	42,190
Watson	469,442	390	6,839					5,442		2,548	15,219
Wenlock	755,519	6	10,321			3		17,574		3,783	31,686
Whitsunday Island	10,687		578					16		< 1	594

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