Drainage division 2019 wetland system extents

Definition of drainage division

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

2019 wetland system extent by drainage division
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Drainage division	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)	palustrine (natural)	palustrine (slightly modified)	riverine
Total	172,795,463	313,086	1,072,687	4,124	514,414	37,538	2,827,300	80,710	2,428,210	7,278,069
Bulloo	5,203,638	414			20,125	126	149,967	253	16,667	187,551
Gulf	45,317,909	18,561	635,099		4,508	8,412	547,106	2,596	903,126	2,119,408
Lake Eyre	50,994,021	7,949			444,601	3,239	1,594,054	1,370	656,025	2,707,238
Murray Darling	26,254,125	89,454			23,580	4,671	201,787	9,973	134,879	464,346
North East Coast	45,025,770	196,709	437,588	4,124	21,601	21,089	334,385	66,518	717,512	1,799,526

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