World Heritage area pre-clear wetland system extents

Definition of World Heritage area

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

Pre-clear wetland system extent by World Heritage area
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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	99,936	2,986	26,128	9,110	138,159
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh)	10,022				313	313
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia	59,492			2	198	200
Great Barrier Reef	34,893,371	80,749	16	2,716	3,627	87,108
K'gari (Fraser Island)	181,838	4,047	2,821	13,298	1	20,167
Wet Tropics of Queensland	894,491	15,140	149	10,111	4,970	30,371

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.