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Drainage division pre-clear wetland system extents

Definition of drainage division

based on wetland mapping version 6.0 metadata

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Pre-clear wetland system extent by drainage division metadata
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Drainage division Total area
(ha)
Wetland area by system Total
wetland area
(ha)
intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural) lacustrine (natural) palustrine (natural) riverine
Total 172,795,463 1,134,291 517,738 3,034,252 2,588,606 7,274,887
Bulloo 5,203,638 20,123 150,149 16,764 187,036
Gulf 45,317,909 635,851 4,889 551,131 910,976 2,102,847
Lake Eyre 50,994,021 444,997 1,596,295 661,363 2,702,655
Murray Darling 26,254,125 25,505 214,473 154,457 394,435
North East Coast 45,025,770 498,440 22,225 522,204 845,046 1,887,914

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.


This page should be cited as:

Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (2022) Drainage division pre-clear wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 30 August 2024. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-pre-clear/drainage-division.html

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