World Heritage area 2019 wetland system extents

Definition of World Heritage area

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

2019 wetland system extent by World Heritage area
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World Heritage area	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)	palustrine (natural)	palustrine (slightly modified)	riverine
Total	36,039,213	3,258	99,919	214	2,990	51	24,771	745	8,119	140,067
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh)	10,022								313	313
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia	59,492	< 1					1		172	174
Great Barrier Reef	34,893,371	1,119	80,732	214	16	49	2,548	745	2,639	88,063
K'gari (Fraser Island)	181,838		4,057		2,824		12,194		1	19,076
Wet Tropics of Queensland	894,491	2,138	15,131		149	2	10,028		4,993	32,441

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

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.