Ramsar internationally important wetland pre-clear wetland system extents

Definition of Ramsar internationally important wetland

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

Pre-clear wetland system extent by Ramsar internationally important wetland
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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	81,797	8,167	29,639	1,542	121,145
Bowling Green Bay	36,652	26,507		297	20	26,824
Currawinya Lakes	150,864		7,746	13,477	222	21,444
Great Sandy Strait	83,742	16,494	12	3,950	< 1	20,457
Moreton Bay	120,639	14,746	409	8,477	21	23,654
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area	201,967	24,050		3,438	1,278	28,766

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.