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Ramsar internationally important wetland pre-clear wetland system extents

Definition of Ramsar internationally important wetland

based on wetland mapping version 6.0 metadata

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Pre-clear wetland system extent by Ramsar internationally important wetland metadata
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Ramsar wetland Total area
(ha)		 Wetland area by system Total
wetland area
(ha)
intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural) lacustrine (natural) palustrine (natural) riverine
Total 593,865 81,591 8,187 29,605 1,542 120,925
Bowling Green Bay 36,652 26,507 274 20 26,802
Currawinya Lakes 150,864 7,766 13,456 222 21,443
Great Sandy Strait 83,742 16,494 12 3,955 < 1 20,462
Moreton Bay 120,639 14,550 409 8,482 21 23,463
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area 201,967 24,040 3,438 1,278 28,756

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of Ramsar internationally important wetlands.

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) Ramsar internationally important wetland pre-clear wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 1 February 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-pre-clear/ramsar-wetland.html

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