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State of the Environment Report drainage division 2019 wetland system extents

Definition of State of the Environment Report drainage division

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

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2019 wetland system extent by State of the Environment Report drainage division metadata
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State of the Environment Report 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 176,633,290 318,025 1,162,159 4,393 513,997 39,114 61 2,841,034 83,955 2,576,218 7,538,957
Bulloo 5,184,900 418 20,324 128 149,618 272 23,339 194,098
Gulf 45,146,891 18,292 634,212 4,457 8,723 11 553,397 3,935 905,298 2,128,325
Lake Eyre 50,988,046 8,004 443,857 3,307 2 1,596,504 1,461 777,330 2,830,466
Murray Darling 26,320,415 93,041 23,541 4,855 < 1 205,989 11,117 134,985 473,528
North East Coast (GBR) 42,319,450 165,681 386,722 3,621 18,205 20,118 31 251,519 64,394 699,964 1,610,255
North East Coast (non-GBR) 2,398,499 31,939 22,385 571 252 1,872 15 55,178 2,744 34,193 149,151
Other 4,275,088 650 118,840 200 3,362 111 < 1 28,830 31 1,109 153,135

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

This page should be cited as:

Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (2022) State of the Environment Report drainage division 2019 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2019/soe-drainage-division.html

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