Drainage basin 2021 wetland system extents

Definition of drainage basin

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

2021 wetland system extent by drainage basin
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Drainage basin	Total area (ha)	Wetland area by system									Total wetland area (ha)
		artificial and highly modified	intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural)	intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (slightly modified)	lacustrine (natural)	lacustrine (slightly modified)	lacustrine (unknown degree of modification)	palustrine (natural)	palustrine (slightly modified)	riverine
Total	172,970,898	319,550	1,152,871	4,463	513,915	39,194	61	2,839,983	84,039	2,573,961	7,528,038
Arafura Sea	26,297		8,637					251			8,888
Archer	1,380,035	98	14,757			10		29,065		10,380	54,310
Baffle	407,766	1,016	13,612		13	144	3	10,759	334	7,189	33,069
Balonne-Condamine	13,664,954	64,787			3,905	2,735	< 1	114,737	7,620	47,729	241,515
Barron	219,333	4,722	995	< 1	111	109	< 1	307	116	4,122	10,483
Black	105,519	791	1,040			14		421	45	3,437	5,749
Border Rivers	2,381,978	20,724			212	710		5,197	1,992	27,239	56,074
Boyne	249,301	2,083	1,657	8		4,226		4	36	3,998	12,013
Brisbane	1,354,920	21,131	643	116		571	6	3,488	642	22,161	48,758
Bulloo	5,203,638	418			20,392	128		149,866	272	23,339	194,415
Burdekin	13,010,930	41,824	2,255		5,534	4,571	2	45,839	2,426	310,110	412,560
Burnett	3,320,998	14,213	1,082	8		1,061		1,731	242	35,238	53,575
Burrum	335,101	3,289	2,772	8		83	2	9,061	182	11,035	26,431
Calliope	224,863	861	7,674	29	22	160	< 1	49	34	976	9,805
Coleman	1,278,450	88	19,476					49,312		11,161	80,038
Cooper Creek	24,386,792	4,137			165,434	2,012	2	503,991	1,102	275,866	952,545
Coral Sea	140,549	41	50,828	77	16	43		1,105	8	73	52,192
Curtis Island	57,804	10	14,317	112				941	4	174	15,558
Daintree	210,458	8	3,291	3		< 1		2,300		2,063	7,666
Diamantina	11,911,000	1,745			110,002	890		677,302	134	339,228	1,129,300
Don	374,512	1,453	17,052	1,897		89	< 1	604	3,702	15,668	40,464
Ducie	674,551	7	25,177					27,922		1,876	54,982
Embley	458,378	1,131	36,795			141		17,074	248	502	55,891
Endeavour	218,630	119	2,684		81	25		2,571	32	4,100	9,613
Fitzroy	14,248,292	59,547	28,619	46	6,508	7,305	6	31,935	12,072	150,872	296,909
Flinders	10,929,807	4,157	40,903		743	621	4	38,037	1,143	202,915	288,523
Fraser Island	165,949		3,442		2,824			12,115		1	18,382
Georgina	14,401,525	2,137			160,953	424		414,619	226	162,216	740,576
Gilbert	4,636,998	2,754	51,153		655	814	< 1	42,969	621	173,036	272,002
Haughton	407,055	1,940	31,735	365	92	1,086	1	4,348	8,681	13,928	62,177
Hay	279,520				5,797			63			5,860
Herbert	987,310	1,438	13,824	2	462	206	7	12,588	1,249	27,768	57,543
Hinchinbrook Island	39,692		8,100					515		180	8,795
Holroyd	1,030,690	26	5,578		< 1			21,410		5,092	32,108
Jacky Jacky	297,162		25,383		2,468			15,552		784	44,188
Jardine	327,317	< 1	2,222					19,296		1,522	23,041
Jeannie	362,572	11	16,716		1,605			7,091	11	3,195	28,629
Johnstone	231,781	359	3,553	12	4	5		4,596	43	1,707	10,279
Kolan	290,501	6,443	1,517			238		481	34	5,009	13,722
Lake Frome	15,184				1,535			3			1,538
Leichhardt	3,288,217	5,754	33,045		182	2,206		29,697	676	87,570	159,131
Lockhart	288,360	4	12,277		57			2,232		6,915	21,485
Logan-Albert	413,866	3,288	2,043	27		170	2	3,148	189	3,743	12,611
Maroochy	153,905	1,952	4,042	282	37	383	4	15,794	1,039	3,755	27,290
Mary	947,833	3,594	4,220			393	7	6,666	403	15,525	30,807
Mitchell	7,162,243	2,462	50,934		1,298	4,140		91,330	461	163,554	314,179
Moonie	1,465,738	5,246			10	726		1,260	384	4,884	12,510
Moreton Bay Islands	57,057	216	7,295		485	35	< 1	6,328	19		14,378
Morning	368,867	374	77,886		1,226	178		2,548	18	6,695	88,924
Mornington Island	99,830	45	11,807					1,075		4	12,931
Mossman	46,574	85	1,639	9		12	< 1	171	1	408	2,326
Mulgrave-Russell	198,740	1,660	5,114	164	38		< 1	8,448	5	2,048	17,477
Murray	110,739	350	8,180		2	2		5,306	36	540	14,417
Nicholson	3,574,411	868	113,965			465		30,249	204	101,774	247,525
Noosa	195,578	127	8,838		249	28		33,301	11	1,594	44,149
Norman	5,066,736	406	65,677		105	136	5	86,315	533	75,222	228,400
Normanby	2,438,587	788	28,238		78	18		40,261	14	23,220	92,617
O'Connell	238,854	918	12,948	20		53	1	1,052	230	3,083	18,306
Olive-Pascoe	417,294		4,652		1,073			4,504		6,076	16,305
Paroo	3,523,770	254			18,896	100		65,543	683	18,119	103,595
Pine	148,279	3,205	4,264	146		339	2	3,376	348	1,607	13,287
Pioneer	157,470	1,793	744			< 1		439		4,316	7,292
Plane	254,423	1,935	18,317	53	13	48		7,567	1,437	4,028	33,398
Proserpine	250,002	5,295	12,475	11	2	8	2	6,836	1,660	3,349	29,638
Ross	170,598	6,103	13,723	114		172		848	1,321	5,197	27,479
Settlement	1,188,868	4	58,810			5		16,762		8,561	84,142
Shoalwater	359,579	1,235	29,235					297	20,319	5,450	56,536
South Coast	130,572	2,295	3,325			414	< 1	1,707	526	1,311	9,580
Staaten	2,570,527	85	18,794		247	6		28,325	31	49,271	96,759
Stewart	275,475	10	6,262					2,276		5,403	13,950
Styx	301,068	1,341	26,299	919	26	92	< 1	860	7,433	5,031	42,002
Torres Strait Islands	57,023	93	5,328		2			618		663	6,704
Tully	167,593	1,617	1,946		8	19		4,359	83	1,635	9,669
Warrego	5,216,183	2,128			509	566		19,075	438	35,680	58,395
Waterpark	182,282	116	25,320	33		57		8,862	2,284	5,512	42,184
Watson	469,442	390	6,839					5,442		2,548	15,219
Wenlock	755,519	6	10,321			3		17,574		3,783	31,686
Whitsunday Island	10,687		578					16		< 1	594

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

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.