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World Heritage area pre-clear wetland system extents

Definition of World Heritage area

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

Display areas in
Pre-clear wetland system extent by World Heritage area metadata
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World Heritage area Total area
(ha)
Wetland area by system Total
wetland area
(ha)
intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural) lacustrine (natural) palustrine (natural) riverine
Total 36,039,213 99,948 2,990 25,330 9,214 137,481
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh) 10,022 313 313
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia 59,492 2 178 181
Great Barrier Reef 34,893,371 80,786 16 2,882 3,662 87,347
K'gari (Fraser Island) 181,838 4,047 2,824 12,315 1 19,187
Wet Tropics of Queensland 894,491 15,114 149 10,131 5,058 30,453

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of World Heritage 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) World Heritage 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/world-heritage-area.html

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