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Water Quality Improvement Plan catchment 2001 wetland habitat extents

Definition of Water Quality Improvement Plan catchment

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2001 wetland habitat extent by Water Quality Improvement Plan catchment metadata
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WQIP catchment Total area
(ha)
Wetland area by habitat Total
wetland area
(ha)
INT01a INT01b INT02 LA15 LC06 LC07 LC08a LC09 PA10 PA11a PA11c PA12a PA12c PA12d PA13 PC02a PC02b PC02c PC02d PC04a PC04c PC04d PC04e PC05 XX99-P-A XX99-P-C
Total 42,620,437 957 230,703 109,193 1,057 7,598 156 5,011 164 2,482 8,042 2,983 16,680 19,884 260 28 54,329 3,274 42,926 5,170 65,526 77,801 7,506 30 3,317 2,694 4,111 671,880
Abbot Bay catchments (Burdekin) 118,919 1,675 1,121 10 6 999 3,810
Alligator Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 20,918 905 119 207 69 48 1,347
Allingham Creek (Burdekin) 109,324 72 90 1,884 223 2,269
Andromache River (Mackay Whitsunday) 40,599 74 2 14 90
Annan River estuary (Eastern Cape York) 1,883 536 196 5 < 1 738
Annan River - lower, outside National Park (incl. Esk River, Hardwicke Creek) (Eastern Cape York) 18,005 24 8 44 6 81
Annan River - upper (above gorge) outside National Park (Eastern Cape York) 35,739 < 1 2 10 12
Annie River, Saltwater Creek and Fifteen Mile Creek (Eastern Cape York) 269,719 2 61 3,667 572 1,753 846 6,902
Baffle (Burnett Mary) 408,475 509 8,144 4,782 13 3,489 467 53 5,790 328 707 24,285
Bakers Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,822 796 168 24 100 118 163 1,369
Balclutha Creek (Eastern Cape York) 42,008 8 21 141 135 133 438
Barratta Creek (Burdekin) 116,808 1,376 398 22 57 70 20 2,155 2 4,100
Barron (Wet Tropics) 218,801 931 20 56 113 155 27 3 16 99 1,420
Basalt River (Burdekin) 286,199 228 2,551 326 3,105
Bathurst and Ninian Bays (Eastern Cape York) 24,974 3 4 7
Bathurst Bay draining creeks (incl. Muck River) (Eastern Cape York) 53,352 747 1,077 240 2,065
Belyando floodplain (Burdekin) 203,024 2,285 8 86 6 800 3,185
Black River (Burdekin) 147,723 1,351 646 421 10 3 121 787 1 1 3,342
Blackrock Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 23,930 1,324 298 18 11 3 1,655
Blacks Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 71,090 0
Bogie River (Burdekin) 227,541 12 2 5 41 59
Bowen River (Burdekin) 113,792 14 3 14 31
Boyne River (Fitzroy) 249,748 2 819 828 3 37 1,688
Broken River (Burdekin) 228,731 0
Burdekin Delta (Burdekin) 113,151 7,181 1,759 393 62 92 25 38 7,603 4 17,157
Burdekin River (below Dam) (Burdekin) 146,880 16 3 2 16 330 367
Burdekin River (Blue Range) (Burdekin) 272,356 278 13 290
Burdekin River (Dam) (Burdekin) 370,188 122 172 294
Burnett (Burnett Mary) 3,319,539 2 961 146 13 206 < 1 23 499 246 695 44 2,838
Burrum (Burnett Mary) 337,174 125 1,493 1,052 1,231 1,461 400 3,599 119 2,439 11,918
Callide Creek (Fitzroy) 766,479 25 12 160 565 2 44 807
Calliope River (Fitzroy) 217,716 2,452 948 22 52 15 12 4 3,505
Camel Creek (Burdekin) 157,869 25 3 84 13 124
Campaspe River (Burdekin) 674,667 644 2 1,096 648 161 2,552
Cape Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 15,032 2,764 2,064 1,033 91 16 5,968
Cape Flattery dune lakes (Eastern Cape York) 25,028 106 288 741 523 1,365 3,022
Cape River (Burdekin) 913,940 1,028 1,145 1,088 746 167 4,175
Carmichael River (Burdekin) 978,227 745 874 163 733 28 88 2,631
Carmilla Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 12,734 363 190 49 18 14 634
Chester River (incl. Scrubby Creek) (Eastern Cape York) 27,577 < 1 2 46 92 19 159
Clarke River (Burdekin) 646,961 5 1,899 174 2,077
Claudie River (incl. Deep, Swamp creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 15,927 155 11 60 225
Coastal creeks and dunes (north of Nesbit) (Eastern Cape York) 44,836 489 289 400 722 1,900
Coastal creeks (Eastern Cape York) 48,061 394 22 19 2,815 20 3,271
Coastal dunes north shore of Endeavour River (Eastern Cape York) 5,863 21 1 148 171
Comet River (Fitzroy) 1,729,049 3,037 983 66 1,921 1,163 523 7,692
Connors River (Fitzroy) 952,700 73 9 617 413 134 93 1,340
Constant Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 26,516 2,592 518 47 118 17 60 3,352
Curtis Island (Fitzroy) 58,456 27 6,459 8,120 21 728 15,355
Daintree (Wet Tropics) 210,670 3,217 36 718 81 < 1 797 7 657 5,514
Deighton River (Eastern Cape York) 67,273 10 64 < 1 16 91
Diamond Creek (Burdekin) 213,725 5 1 11 17
Don River (Burdekin) 120,812 869 271 63 47 1,251
Douglas Creek (Burdekin) 122,846 5 < 1 6
Dry River (Burdekin) 202,310 1 870 2,555 239 3,665
Eden Lassie Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 54,000 1,318 766 80 8 2,173
Endeavour River estuary (Eastern Cape York) 2,257 1,273 21 85 4 1,384
Endeavour River - lower (incl. Cameron, Poison creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 24,037 52 5 191 226 73 547
Endeavour River - north branch (incl. Isabella, Mango Tree creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 18,019 88 88
Endeavour River - right branch (Eastern Cape York) 38,771 270 784 1,054
Endeavour River - south branch (Eastern Cape York) 14,720 0
Escape River (Eastern Cape York) 32,685 431 25 202 14 3,205 190 4,067
Estuaries draining into Temple Bay, Hudson Bay (Eastern Cape York) 4,110 2,790 674 4 3,468
Estuaries (incl. Jacky Jacky, Escape, Harmer) (Eastern Cape York) 26,482 20,956 3,086 < 1 157 18 7 24,225
Estuaries (incl. Stewart, Rocky, other estuaries) (Eastern Cape York) 9,927 2,524 3,856 28 3 12 6,423
Fanning River (Burdekin) 110,772 95 101 196
Fitzroy River (Fitzroy) 1,133,947 8,136 798 640 55 332 143 572 9,207 6,395 81 26,359
Flaggy Rock Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,893 343 292 192 826
Fox Creek (Burdekin) 320,794 473 180 2 10 665
Gillinbin Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 13,107 331 93 1,332 13 95 1,865
Glenmore Creek (Burdekin) 160,911 54 54
Glennie Creek (Eastern Cape York) 36,334 10 234 244
Goanna, Breakfast, Whiphandle creeks (Eastern Cape York) 56,201 0 < 1 255 < 1 15 271
Gorge, Running creeks (Eastern Cape York) 41,345 7 13 121 176 528 168 1,012
Gray Creek (Burdekin) 169,505 67 67
Gregory River (Mackay Whitsunday) 31,028 1,478 676 138 42 2,335
Hann Creek (Burdekin) 185,299 13 11 1 26
Hann Creek (Eastern Cape York) 28,672 0
Harmer, Little Harmer Creeks (Eastern Cape York) 108,898 159 < 1 181 22 1,353 397 2,113
Haughton River (Burdekin) 232,550 6,323 3,167 165 47 3 302 26 301 2,934 311 13,578
Herbert (Wet Tropics) 984,235 10,921 2,624 548 3,043 1,408 456 80 2,717 4,944 6 3 11 157 26,919
Hinchinbrook Island (Wet Tropics) 39,543 7,580 354 157 13 322 11 8,436
Indian Bay (Eastern Cape York) 863 0
Jack River and Beattie Creek (Eastern Cape York) 148,352 801 375 617 170 1,963
Jacky Jacky Creek (Eastern Cape York) 31,041 23 23 169 4,738 117 278 5,348
Jeannie estuaries (incl. Horwick, Starcke, Dead Dog and other estuaries) (Eastern Cape York) 9,543 5,248 3,282 0 < 1 0 8,530
Jeannie River (Eastern Cape York) 46,942 35 65 10 18 128
Johnstone (Wet Tropics) 232,153 3,447 64 4 2,011 911 21 1,337 6 1 211 8,012
Kangaroo River and coastal creeks (Eastern Cape York) 28,105 9 4 4 281 297
Keelbottom Creek (Burdekin) 164,284 90 15 104
Kennedy Inlet / Newcastle Bay (Eastern Cape York) 24,824 403 73 476
Kennedy River and Little Kennedy Creek (Eastern Cape York) 253,270 1,236 1,809 103 141 3,289
Kirk River (Burdekin) 135,590 0
Kolan (Burnett Mary) 290,449 84 1,226 170 218 145 94 94 2,030
Landers Creek (Burdekin) 106,730 20 9 3 70 102
Laura River (incl. Mosman River, Kennedy Creek) (Eastern Cape York) 203,164 116 98 11 431 656
Lethebrook (Mackay Whitsunday) 37,352 649 44 678 513 301 1,128 3,314
Little Bowen River (Burdekin) 147,193 44 4 47
Little Laura River (incl. Shepherd, Pine Tree creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 89,372 136 134 33 392 695
Lloyd Bay (Eastern Cape York) 5,422 518 518
Lockhart, Claudie and adjacent estuaries (Eastern Cape York) 9,537 7,017 765 7 7,788
Lockhart River (incl. Eden, Arroto and Scrubby creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 82,829 5 1 6 4 339 355
Lockhart town and surrounds (incl. dunes) (Eastern Cape York) 4,018 68 1 < 1 69
Logan Creek (Burdekin) 403,627 10 5 4 3 22
Lolworth Creek (Burdekin) 350,352 974 44 435 42 3,340 5,049 53 9,938
Lower Cape River (Burdekin) 298,561 11 7 13 241 20 76 368
Lower Dawson River (Fitzroy) 1,991,424 159 2,416 496 3,481 544 542 7,637
Lower Isaac River (Fitzroy) 272,514 403 58 32 13 506
Lower Suttor River (Burdekin) 268,899 41 11 252 304
Mackay City (Mackay Whitsunday) 17,126 1,383 232 257 146 158 61 2,237
Mackenzie River (Fitzroy) 1,297,741 150 1,700 615 2,019 59 510 5,053
Margaret Bay (Eastern Cape York) 833 3 3
Marion Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 11,201 371 322 93 4 44 835
Marrett River, Sandalwood and Birthday creeks (Eastern Cape York) 134,518 7 7 231 485 42 381 1,154
Mary (Burnett Mary) 946,581 209 3,076 977 1,743 < 1 4,277 434 335 11,053
Massy Creek, Rocky River (Eastern Cape York) 48,405 < 1 1 347 2 350
McIvor, Morgan rivers and coastal creeks (Eastern Cape York) 58,801 472 29 321 421 2,577 3,820
Middle and West Claudie Rivers (incl. Gordon, Scrubby creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 17,736 0
Mistake Creek (Burdekin) 587,421 61 226 24 4 8 7 551 881
Morehead River, Healy Creek and Hann River (Eastern Cape York) 425,766 4,258 2,974 281 729 8,242
Mossman (Wet Tropics) 47,285 1,395 213 177 11 4 1,801
Mulgrave-Russell (Wet Tropics) 198,027 4,635 252 94 611 151 4,846 674 368 20 1,558 13,208
Murray Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 46,631 2,352 438 45 < 1 2,836
Murray (Wet Tropics) 110,656 7,753 968 1,500 396 4 2,702 285 74 3 247 13,933
Myrtle Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 29,516 1,339 159 60 29 479 150 2,216
Native Companion Creek (Burdekin) 548,474 137 < 1 99 33 10 279
Nesbit, Chester and adjacent estuaries (Eastern Cape York) 4,338 649 2,356 33 3,037
Nesbit River (incl. Leo Creek) (Eastern Cape York) 68,059 < 1 < 1 269 175 444
Nogoa River (Fitzroy) 1,616,991 223 26 1,005 72 423 1,748
Normanby estuarine waters (incl. Bizant, Normanby, Saltwater and others adjacent Princess Charlotte Bay) (Eastern Cape York) 54,162 7,689 20,021 12 172 22 612 28,527
Normanby /lower Laura rivers (incl. Brown, Cabbage Tree creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 205,565 1,528 1,618 510 791 71 4,517
Normanby River - lower and Bizant River (Eastern Cape York) 105,992 317 84 372 1,389 232 3,354 5,749
Normanby - upper (incl. West, East and Granite Normanby Rivers, Bridge Ck) (Eastern Cape York) 290,818 243 21 1,114 1,089 2 2,469
North Jacky Jacky Creek – dune lakes (Eastern Cape York) 13,858 137 5 151 32 431 281 1,038
North Jeannie coastal creeks outside National Park (incl. Horwick River, Wakooka Creek) (Eastern Cape York) 110,554 2,319 2,945 31 575 54 5,924
North Kennedy River (Eastern Cape York) 191,510 1,450 2,148 271 254 4,123
Oaky , Wallace, Lyon creeks (Eastern Cape York) 33,909 0
OConnell River (Mackay Whitsunday) 48,766 539 60 246 14 50 26 935
Olive River estuary (Eastern Cape York) 751 448 19 83 8 0 558
Olive River (incl. Horseshoe, Scorpion creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 124,133 < 1 0 275 643 412 2,142 3,472
Pascoe - headwaters (incl. Little Pascoe, Fall creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 64,780 13 61 74
Pascoe - lower, outside National Park (incl. Tin and coastal creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 36,638 457 163 620
Pascoe - mid (incl. Garraway, Brown creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 31,243 0
Pascoe - mid (incl. Hamilton Creek) (Eastern Cape York) 11,269 0
Pascoe River estuary and other estuaries draining into Wemouth Bay (Eastern Cape York) 1,325 110 7 2 118
Pascoe - upper (incl. Yam, One Mile creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 36,658 0
Pelican Creek (Burdekin) 148,083 0
Pioneer River Main Channel (Mackay Whitsunday) 54,788 85 7 12 8 113
Plane Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 15,963 804 146 51 14 3 1,018
Port of Cape Flattery (land side) (Eastern Cape York) 9,437 10 519 121 139 789
Port of Cape Flattery marine waters (Eastern Cape York) 14,707 16 6 22
Port of Cooktown marine waters (Eastern Cape York) 3,067 11 11
Port of Quintell Beach marine waters (Eastern Cape York) 1,364 2 2
Princess Charlotte Bay (Eastern Cape York) 137,329 25 < 1 25
Proserpine River Main Channel (Mackay Whitsunday) 8,490 0
Reliance Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 10,662 1,070 480 8 14 50 3 1,624
Repulse Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 25,555 1,701 39 2 4 1,745
Rocky Dam Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 51,839 3,499 2,177 1,752 546 754 8,728
Rollston River (Burdekin) 144,919 < 1 < 1
Rosella Creek (Burdekin) 147,410 130 8 4 9 151
Rosetta Creek (Burdekin) 244,047 369 43 18 2 431
Ross River (Burdekin) 131,054 2,450 1,629 3 17 56 2 82 378 < 1 4,616
Running River (Burdekin) 110,538 < 1 < 1
Sandy Creek (Burdekin) 318,941 23 278 302
Sandy Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 49,935 608 226 402 36 99 25 1,396
Sarina Beaches (Mackay Whitsunday) 8,458 500 143 76 124 13 857
Sellheim River (Burdekin) 170,458 26 26
Shelburne Bay dune lakes (Eastern Cape York) 49,236 33 29 2,716 820 2 3,600
Shelburne Bay (Eastern Cape York) 25,164 24 24
Shoalwater Creek (Fitzroy) 361,610 13,292 12,031 35 10 86 441 19,955 < 1 45,850
South Annan coastal creeks outside National Park (Eastern Cape York) 15,542 493 66 12 44 186 21 822
St Helens Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,566 1,312 146 4 7 1,470
Star River (Burdekin) 199,399 144 1 145
Starcke River (Eastern Cape York) 50,093 8 58 38 484 468 1,056
Stewart River - headwaters outside National Park (incl. Little Stewart, Station creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 38,767 0
Stewart River, Terrible Creek (Eastern Cape York) 37,627 37 37
Stones Creek (Burdekin) 77,525 0
Styx River (Fitzroy) 299,512 5,772 10,348 26 344 18 19 36 7,628 83 24,274
Temple Bay and Hudson Bay (Eastern Cape York) 5,735 4 4
Theresa Creek (Fitzroy) 1,149,860 203 28 531 78 840
Thompsons Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,013 2,630 1,054 456 2,038 413 1,892 8,482
Trevethan Creek outside National Park (Eastern Cape York) 9,497 1 1
Tully (Wet Tropics) 168,340 1,828 8 4 282 381 3,213 37 53 569 6,373
Upper Belyando River (Burdekin) 583,589 288 < 1 4 94 33 < 1 419
Upper Burdekin River (Burdekin) 448,172 560 280 2,360 7,913 645 14 501 102 565 46 12,987
Upper Cattle Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,841 0
Upper Dawson River (Fitzroy) 2,315,530 2,222 103 7 392 373 1,874 84 5,056
Upper Isaac River (Fitzroy) 1,012,469 367 243 1,167 575 7 443 2,802
Upper Proserpine River (Mackay Whitsunday) 26,621 0
Upper Suttor River (Burdekin) 515,807 189 12 13 141 58 28 24 464
Upstart Bay catchments (Burdekin) 129,031 4,744 689 24 2 6 3,079 8,544
Walker Bay (Eastern Cape York) 246 10 10
Walsh Bay (Eastern Cape York) 189 1 1
Waterhole Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 21,131 808 554 214 < 1 20 1,595
Waterpark Creek (Fitzroy) 184,786 20,451 3,065 4,417 1,345 706 < 1 3,578 1,256 34,819
Weary Bay (Eastern Cape York) 540 0
West Hill Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,396 708 685 927 282 106 2,708
Weymouth Bay (Eastern Cape York) 4,352 9 9
Whitsunday Coast (Mackay Whitsunday) 19,560 658 39 8 3 13 721
Wilson Creek, Portland Road coastal creeks (Eastern Cape York) 13,471 360 13 3 19 396

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of Water Quality Improvement Plan catchments.

Wetland habitat code descriptions
INT01a Mangroves - Casuarina
INT01b Mangroves - other
INT02 Salt marsh and salt flats
LA15 Arid and semi-arid floodplain lake
LC06 Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain lake
LC07 Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain rock lake
LC08a Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain sand (window) lake
LC09 Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain soil lake
PA10 Arid and semi-arid saline swamp
PA11a Arid and semi-arid floodplain tree swamp
PA11c Arid and semi-arid floodplain grass, sedge and herb swamp
PA12a Arid and semi-arid non-floodplain tree swamp
PA12c Arid and semi-arid non-floodplain grass, sedge and herb swamp
PA12d Arid and semi-arid other non-floodplain swamp
PA13 Arid and semi-arid Great Artesian Basin fed spring swamp
PC02a Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain tree (Melaleuca and Eucalypt) swamp
PC02b Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain wet heath swamp
PC02c Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain grass, sedge, and herb swamp
PC02d Coastal and sub-coastal other non-floodplain swamp
PC04a Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain tree (Melaleuca and Eucalypt) swamp
PC04c Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain grass, sedge, and herb swamp
PC04d Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain wet heath swamp
PC04e Coastal and sub-coastal other floodplain swamp
PC05 Coastal and sub-coastal tree (palm) swamp
XX99-P-A Unknown - Swamp - Arid and semi-arid
XX99-P-C Unknown - Swamp - Coastal and sub-coastal

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) Water Quality Improvement Plan catchment 2001 wetland habitat extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 18 March 2024. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-habitat-2001/wqip.html

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