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State of the Environment Report drainage division pre-clear wetland system extents

Definition of State of the Environment Report drainage division

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

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Pre-clear 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)
intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural) lacustrine (natural) palustrine (natural) riverine
Total 176,633,290 1,225,065 517,761 3,050,814 2,736,529 7,530,169
Bulloo 5,184,900 20,321 149,823 23,430 193,574
Gulf 45,146,891 634,944 4,828 558,186 912,978 2,110,936
Lake Eyre 50,988,046 444,252 1,598,592 782,585 2,825,428
Murray Darling 26,320,415 25,602 220,958 154,026 400,586
North East Coast (GBR) 42,319,450 442,726 19,142 376,269 801,485 1,639,622
North East Coast (non-GBR) 2,398,499 28,104 252 115,510 60,414 204,280
Other 4,275,088 119,290 3,365 31,476 1,611 155,742

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 pre-clear wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-pre-clear/soe-drainage-division.html

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