Drainage division 2019 wetland system extents

Definition of drainage division

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

2019 wetland system extent by drainage division
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Drainage division	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	172,795,463	317,859	1,087,288	4,316	513,927	39,070	61	2,839,083	83,947	2,575,344	7,460,893
Bulloo	5,203,638	418			20,396	128		149,859	272	23,339	194,411
Gulf	45,317,909	18,424	649,467		4,460	8,723	11	555,075	3,935	906,058	2,146,151
Lake Eyre	50,994,021	8,005			443,725	3,320	2	1,596,182	1,461	777,416	2,830,111
Murray Darling	26,254,125	93,039			23,548	4,845	< 1	206,014	11,117	134,275	472,839
North East Coast	45,025,770	197,973	437,821	4,316	21,798	22,054	47	331,953	67,162	734,256	1,817,381

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

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.