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Study area pre-clear wetland system extents

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

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Pre-clear wetland system extent by study area metadata
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Study area Total area
(ha)
Wetland area by system Total
wetland area
(ha)
intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural) lacustrine (natural) palustrine (natural) riverine
Total 1,359,762 25,413 2,887 72,655 28,626 129,581
Cairns Urban 62,327 5,864 2,212 2,208 10,284
Great Sandy Strait 1,218,935 15,555 2,852 45,736 25,898 90,041
Pumicestone Passage 78,501 3,994 34 24,707 521 29,256

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of study areas.

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) Study area 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/study-area.html

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