Biogeographic subregion 2019 wetland system extents

Definition of biogeographic subregion

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

2019 wetland system extent by biogeographic subregion
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Biogeographic subregion	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	173,140,542	317,700	1,160,724	4,390	513,965	39,110	61	2,840,963	83,955	2,575,057	7,535,926
Alice Tableland	2,866,760	431			20,062	133		39,351	398	24,628	85,003
Anakie Inlier	382,284	671				83		104	9	3,228	4,094
Arcadia	715,288	2,020			2,969	602	2	2,730	258	5,491	14,072
Armraynald Plains	1,589,437	827	1,451		22	453		34,948	727	54,514	92,944
Atherton	177,037	1,758			147	32	2	393	158	822	3,310
Banana - Auburn Ranges	1,547,555	4,121				3		126	76	14,678	19,003
Barakula	1,301,712	711			929	666		654	81	5,584	8,623
Barkly Tableland	2,180,576	166				82		17,483	151	29,541	47,423
Basalt Downs	1,274,731	17,475				321		223	14	11,189	29,222
Battle Camp Sandstones	504,564	9	1,220					769		4,940	6,938
Bellenden Ker - Lamb	271,116	2,398	102		6	< 1		773		935	4,213
Belyando Downs	1,772,127	5,080				1,708		5,520	580	23,159	36,046
Beucazon Hills	95,821	128				67		98		3,591	3,884
Bogie River Hills	1,054,731	3,651	2,947	57		264	< 1	165	658	40,027	47,770
Boomer Range	220,541	164				19		10	16	1,720	1,930
Brisbane - Barambah Volcanics	806,778	14,229				8		291	14	11,573	26,115
Broken River	3,309,590	5,720			874	652		6,059	136	123,107	136,549
Buckland Basalts	281,306	2				2		116		1,048	1,167
Bulloo	619,042	14			19,002			110,275	3	5,334	134,628
Bulloo Dunefields	1,077,211	55			22,958	52	1	23,860	30	2,630	49,585
Burnett - Curtis Coastal Lowlands	706,909	6,812	17,795	17	13	1,429	11	27,591	696	11,183	65,547
Burnett - Curtis Hills and Ranges	1,031,742	9,173	31,905	147		2,194	< 1	4,367	166	14,636	62,587
Burringbar - Conondale Ranges	535,409	10,114	197	14		185	4	2,049	147	6,977	19,687
Byfield	128,140	17	163					2,727	< 1	3,442	6,349
Callide Creek Downs	301,303	1,367			67	2		673	64	2,087	4,260
Cape - Campaspe Plains	1,007,026	651			704	169	< 1	1,502	342	36,798	40,166
Cape River Hills	747,993	23,255			11	71		373	10	16,993	40,712
Cape York - Torres Strait	102,098	93	26,484		2			785		815	28,180
Carnarvon Ranges	2,263,686	231			722	258		651	49	6,100	8,010
Central Downs	9,378,817	2,937				1,375		5,326	61	22,631	32,329
Claraville Plains	3,738,013	198				8	3	70,626	466	53,031	124,333
Clarke - Connors Ranges	631,989	1,723	72			< 1		86	6	5,086	6,973
Claude River Downs	1,026,214	926			90	320		609	26	10,661	12,634
Coastal Plains	288,595	5	62,024					23,166		350	85,545
Coen - Yambo Inlier	2,313,476	264	14,372		12			6,311		28,577	49,535
Coongie	5,724				41			53		884	978
Cooper - Diamantina Plains	3,437,773	71			76,794	9		994,363	48	72,921	1,144,205
Culgoa - Bokhara	420,325	26,046			9	110		2,019	469	7,712	36,364
Cuttaburra - Paroo	644,047	61			18,275	5		52,586	621	599	72,147
Daintree - Bloomfield	358,119	117	5,389	12		11	< 1	2,688	1	3,218	11,437
Dawson River Downs	982,807	5,187			145	658		2,761	799	6,830	16,379
Debella	81,531	4,157	4,021			< 1		206	59	1,913	10,357
Dieri	259,083	1			5,384	16		2,783		1,123	9,307
Donors Plateau	2,449,964	2,489	9,237		264	817		21,195	173	55,778	89,952
Doomadgee Plains	1,684,750	55	534			18		22,766	6	18,634	42,013
Dulacca Downs	162,442	410				157		10	17	104	697
Eastern Darling Downs	1,698,060	11,655			66	439	< 1	1,808	470	5,522	19,961
Eastern Mulga Plains	1,563,269	513			405	180		13,069	211	404	14,781
Flinders	435,263	244				38		177	7	6,451	6,916
Georgetown - Croydon	1,041,407	1,082				347		340	38	23,858	25,664
Georgina - Eyre Plains	1,212,759	4			21,591	< 1		318,736	18	52,238	392,588
Georgina Limestone	1,437,914	170			516	43		9,141		8,514	18,384
Gilberton Plateau	1,403,937	206			784	13	4	2,349	120	11,712	15,188
Goneaway Tablelands	5,182,219	288			6,015	147	< 1	18,520	111	284,334	309,416
Great Sandy	362,412	90	10,641		3,073	16		37,792	14	1,264	52,890
Gympie Block	859,024	4,075	156			41		1,246	169	23,154	28,842
Herbert	222,189	690	14,629	2		16		7,519	826	10,673	34,355
Herberton - Wairuna	661,771	916			2,668	169	4	3,050	372	19,807	26,986
Hodgkinson Basin	1,607,221	2,091				3,817		403	3	31,609	37,922
Holroyd Plain - Red Plateau	2,208,468	242			148	47		14,560	210	49,553	64,761
Inglewood Sandstones	1,218,793	4,119			208	8		563	42	3,541	8,480
Innisfail	195,917	2,086	9,615	177		25	< 1	12,817	36	3,375	28,131
Isaac - Comet Downs	2,693,397	13,751			316	2,029	4	8,100	1,488	43,499	69,187
Jardine - Pascoe Sandstones	1,451,290	6	40,503		3,558			60,391		4,857	109,315
Jericho	1,486,926	522				104		2,117	42	11,346	14,130
Karumba Plains	1,070,737	51	496,279		1,219	104		27,323	390	6,814	532,181
Kidston	2,929,528	1,519			264	692		3,294	9	67,270	73,047
Kirrama - Hinchinbrook	283,165	1,492	684			< 1		450		1,610	4,238
Kynuna Plateau	2,293,311	642				187		747	64	36,244	37,884
Lake Pure	984,908	12			12,950	11		10,916		725	24,613
Langlo Plains	1,290,484	113				51		8,427		6,770	15,361
Laura Lowlands	1,791,536	116	9,080		124	16		35,347	14	18,907	63,605
Macalister	112,730	445	24					365	38	1,657	2,529
Macintyre - Weir Fan	291,967	11,997			212	689		4,128	1,437	8,955	27,418
Manifold	79,681	13	8,525	7				7,079	858	4,360	20,843
Marlborough Plains	1,216,837	10,672	125,219	998	519	699	< 1	8,885	37,606	17,770	202,367
McArthur	589,190					1		1,428		9,984	11,413
Mitchell - Gilbert Fans	5,262,816	477	9,299		1,619	68	3	104,423	656	231,271	347,816
Moonie - Barwon Interfluve	689,472	3,281			0	137		439	200	1,602	5,659
Moonie R. - Commoron Creek Floodout	750,659	2,357				50		675	501	1,628	5,212
Moreton Basin	784,969	6,457	82	8		604	2	3,678	565	12,475	23,870
Mount Isa Inlier	4,641,852	5,926				1,763		73		108,380	116,141
Mount Morgan Ranges	1,275,970	3,935	96		33	2,955		722	250	7,825	15,815
Nandewar Northern Complex	629,398	4,095						71	2	11,683	15,851
Narrandool	16,500	405								7	412
Nebine Plains	1,207,796	65			2,066	76		66,749	1,795	697	71,448
Nebo - Connors Ranges	449,269	176				10		170	33	10,586	10,975
Noccundra Slopes	1,798,759	115			1,073	2		11,238		37,864	50,291
North Eastern Plains	660,369	266			516	55		1,113	397	10,779	13,127
Northern Bowen Basin	1,316,957	5,988			399	1,100		1,020	71	27,274	35,852
Northern Holroyd Plain	2,464,074	103	1,560		< 1			86,986		14,928	103,578
Northern Uplands	1,147,549	165				22		97		4,199	4,482
Paluma - Seaview	233,751	253				< 1		37		1,581	1,871
Prairie - Torrens Creeks Alluvials	1,580,383	416			1,325	156		4,485	123	12,749	19,254
Proserpine - Sarina Lowlands	471,784	3,916	39,046	74	13	107	3	15,685	3,238	9,655	71,737
Scenic Rim	228,692	700				< 1		13	< 1	2,646	3,360
Simpson Desert	1,964,992				32,320			7,602	12	343	40,276
South Burnett	563,866	1,962				146		302	28	3,071	5,508
South Drummond Basin	1,009,244	867			35	275		960	114	9,678	11,929
Southern Downs	4,264,666	4,164			25	1,250		4,005	792	29,039	39,275
Southern Great Barrier Reef	272							< 1			< 1
Southern Wooded Downs	4,720,995	2,014				959		1,634	74	34,303	38,985
Southwestern Downs	3,715,454	674			530	75		11,897	32	44,267	57,475
Southwestern Plateaus & Floodouts	1,333,519	512				33		775		22,216	23,536
Stanthorpe Plateau	137,941	718				8		219	4	3,592	4,541
Starke Coastal Lowlands	513,912	229	19,403		1,686	11		11,312	43	8,504	41,188
Strzelecki Desert	402,443	66			39,715	50		2,733	60	49	42,673
Sturt Stony Desert	5,773,950	316			199,927	288		128,576	125	77,651	406,884
Sunshine Coast - Gold Coast Lowlands	365,498	3,853	21,831	550	522	1,129	10	31,397	2,040	5,647	66,981
Tara Downs	511,339	1,358				191		920	67	394	2,930
Taroom Downs	652,005	1,330			430	347		2,195	269	7,178	11,749
Tenterfield Plateau	7,456	10								167	177
Thorntonia	779,074	30				8		14		39,633	39,686
Toko Plains	498,425				4,118	< 1		1,600		1,944	7,663
Townsville Plains	768,022	9,158	62,838	2,330	125	2,008	1	6,209	13,735	38,578	134,983
Tully	138,876	412	20,052		10	19		9,444	118	1,976	32,031
Undara - Toomba Basalts	2,076,208	425			1,158	181	1	52,625	476	26,710	81,577
Upper Belyando Floodout	466,275	412				180		249	133	955	1,930
Urisino Sandplains	860,249	30			71	1		7,566	96	1,103	8,867
Warrambool - Moonie	573,576	8,155			10	254		1,711	2,144	4,551	16,826
Warrego Plains	2,168,127	611			1,159	121		30,512	225	7,604	40,232
Weipa Plateau	2,875,674	1,616	70,068			154		59,544	248	12,579	144,210
Wellesley Islands	127,711	45	19,907					1,324		4	21,279
Weribone High	966,510	5,143				345		778	282	7,416	13,965
West Balonne Plains	1,991,194	6,759				361		5,742	1,347	1,306	15,515
West Bulloo	2,852,104	485			111	56		17,740	311	18,725	37,428
West Warrego	4,220,623	220			675	100		14,157	178	26,193	41,524
Whitsunday	91,153	60	3,067		2	15		47		97	3,287
Woodenbong	2,846	10									10
Woondoola Plains	2,375,110	652	206		158	199		12,126	759	85,361	99,460
Woorabinda	749,785	262				213		3,771	249	6,248	10,743
Wyarra Hills	397,935	240				135		294	37	6,547	7,252

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

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.