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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 6.0 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 1,210,014 517,808 3,036,328 2,589,450 7,353,600
Bulloo 5,184,900 20,051 149,908 16,764 186,722
Gulf 45,146,891 620,566 4,886 549,442 910,208 2,085,101
Lake Eyre 50,988,046 445,129 1,596,616 661,278 2,703,023
Murray Darling 26,320,415 25,498 214,447 155,198 395,143
North East Coast (GBR) 42,319,450 442,407 18,631 377,827 786,393 1,625,258
North East Coast (non-GBR) 2,398,499 27,917 252 115,793 58,001 201,962
Other 4,275,088 119,124 3,362 32,295 1,609 156,390

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 18 March 2024. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-pre-clear/soe-drainage-division.html

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