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Water Quality Improvement Plan catchment 2005 wetland habitat extents

Definition of Water Quality Improvement Plan catchment

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2005 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 1,017 231,117 109,562 1,559 7,697 156 4,953 164 34 7,845 462 17,029 18,079 258 37 55,136 3,262 53,702 5,542 66,631 74,498 7,686 34 3,455 796 351 671,063
Abbot Bay catchments (Burdekin) 118,919 1,674 1,121 10 6 999 3,810
Alligator Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 20,918 906 124 206 70 49 1,354
Allingham Creek (Burdekin) 109,324 72 90 1,884 223 2,269
Andromache River (Mackay Whitsunday) 40,599 66 2 26 94
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 62 3,674 566 1,753 846 6,903
Baffle (Burnett Mary) 408,475 527 8,147 4,771 13 3,635 467 53 5,993 333 720 24,659
Bakers Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,822 807 163 24 102 115 164 1,375
Balclutha Creek (Eastern Cape York) 42,008 8 21 141 135 133 438
Barratta Creek (Burdekin) 116,808 1,376 398 22 10 135 22 2,314 4,278
Barron (Wet Tropics) 218,801 948 23 56 116 162 28 3 23 83 1,440
Basalt River (Burdekin) 286,199 222 2,551 52 2,825
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 2,300 8 86 800 6 3,199
Black River (Burdekin) 147,723 1,368 609 451 11 3 126 719 2 1 3,289
Blackrock Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 23,930 1,324 298 19 11 3 1,656
Blacks Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 71,090 0
Bogie River (Burdekin) 227,541 12 41 2 5 59
Bowen River (Burdekin) 113,792 14 14 3 31
Boyne River (Fitzroy) 249,748 2 831 838 3 37 1,711
Broken River (Burdekin) 228,731 0
Burdekin Delta (Burdekin) 113,151 7,189 1,808 452 62 83 24 38 7,777 17,433
Burdekin River (below Dam) (Burdekin) 146,880 16 326 3 2 16 362
Burdekin River (Blue Range) (Burdekin) 272,356 278 13 291
Burdekin River (Dam) (Burdekin) 370,188 120 173 293
Burnett (Burnett Mary) 3,319,539 21 967 114 13 211 23 503 493 696 44 3,086
Burrum (Burnett Mary) 337,174 126 1,499 1,061 1,212 1,450 404 3,684 121 2,454 12,011
Callide Creek (Fitzroy) 766,479 25 18 29 160 572 2 805
Calliope River (Fitzroy) 217,716 2,450 943 22 4 52 15 12 3,497
Camel Creek (Burdekin) 157,869 15 3 84 13 114
Campaspe River (Burdekin) 674,667 33 102 642 279 1,056
Cape Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 15,032 2,765 2,065 1,026 91 16 5,963
Cape Flattery dune lakes (Eastern Cape York) 25,028 106 288 741 523 1,365 3,022
Cape River (Burdekin) 913,940 465 897 17 775 136 2,290
Carmichael River (Burdekin) 978,227 34 878 47 805 122 37 1,924
Carmilla Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 12,734 367 181 49 18 14 629
Chester River (incl. Scrubby Creek) (Eastern Cape York) 27,577 < 1 2 46 92 19 159
Clarke River (Burdekin) 646,961 23 2,170 156 2,349
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) 48,061 400 22 18 2,903 14 3,358
Coastal dunes north shore of Endeavour River (Eastern Cape York) 5,863 21 1 148 171
Comet River (Fitzroy) 1,729,049 3,037 954 523 66 1,982 1,163 7,725
Connors River (Fitzroy) 952,700 73 102 697 406 134 1,412
Constant Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 26,516 2,594 518 49 119 17 60 3,356
Curtis Island (Fitzroy) 58,456 27 6,463 8,120 196 21 728 15,554
Daintree (Wet Tropics) 210,670 3,237 36 721 84 < 1 804 5 674 5,563
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 37 63 1,239
Douglas Creek (Burdekin) 122,846 5 < 1 6
Dry River (Burdekin) 202,310 1 857 2,556 239 3,653
Eden Lassie Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 54,000 1,319 768 82 8 2,177
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 25 144 14 3,056 345 4,015
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 20,948 3,086 < 1 161 18 7 24,221
Estuaries (incl. Stewart, Rocky, other estuaries) (Eastern Cape York) 9,927 2,544 3,659 28 95 12 35 6,373
Fanning River (Burdekin) 110,772 95 101 196
Fitzroy River (Fitzroy) 1,133,947 8,136 798 658 55 332 85 622 9,048 6,457 26,190
Flaggy Rock Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,893 343 293 134 769
Fox Creek (Burdekin) 320,794 473 180 10 2 665
Gillinbin Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 13,107 331 93 1,558 13 96 2,091
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 13 121 175 528 168 1,011
Gray Creek (Burdekin) 169,505 85 7 92
Gregory River (Mackay Whitsunday) 31,028 1,478 676 140 42 2,337
Hann Creek (Burdekin) 185,299 2 1 4
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 6,340 3,535 165 47 56 643 34 348 2,683 13,851
Herbert (Wet Tropics) 984,235 11,022 2,555 548 3,025 1,510 482 100 2,762 5,196 11 6 12 161 27,390
Hinchinbrook Island (Wet Tropics) 39,543 7,581 358 166 12 299 11 8,426
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 3,462 64 4 1,993 929 23 1,493 12 1 245 8,225
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 2 58 463
Kennedy River and Little Kennedy Creek (Eastern Cape York) 253,270 1,236 1,809 103 140 3,289
Kirk River (Burdekin) 135,590 0
Kolan (Burnett Mary) 290,449 93 1,239 192 223 154 94 86 2,080
Landers Creek (Burdekin) 106,730 20 70 9 3 101
Laura River (incl. Mosman River, Kennedy Creek) (Eastern Cape York) 203,164 116 98 11 431 656
Lethebrook (Mackay Whitsunday) 37,352 649 44 680 513 300 1,123 3,310
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 1,012 438 36 3,394 5,051 53 9,984
Lower Cape River (Burdekin) 298,561 11 16 4 9 84 20 143
Lower Dawson River (Fitzroy) 1,991,424 159 2,342 535 490 3,468 548 7,543
Lower Isaac River (Fitzroy) 272,514 403 13 58 32 506
Lower Suttor River (Burdekin) 268,899 41 11 252 304
Mackay City (Mackay Whitsunday) 17,126 1,377 209 246 189 149 61 2,231
Mackenzie River (Fitzroy) 1,297,741 150 1,694 504 616 1,826 62 4,852
Margaret Bay (Eastern Cape York) 833 3 3
Marion Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 11,201 372 321 92 4 43 832
Marrett River, Sandalwood and Birthday creeks (Eastern Cape York) 134,518 7 7 231 485 42 381 1,154
Mary (Burnett Mary) 946,581 221 3,084 979 1,703 < 1 4,542 468 342 11,339
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 2,578 3,820
Middle and West Claudie Rivers (incl. Gordon, Scrubby creeks) (Eastern Cape York) 17,736 0
Mistake Creek (Burdekin) 587,421 61 226 551 24 4 8 7 882
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 1,399 218 176 7 5 1,806
Mulgrave-Russell (Wet Tropics) 198,027 4,781 370 94 627 151 < 1 4,978 678 368 21 1,585 13,654
Murray Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 46,631 2,356 436 45 < 1 2,837
Murray (Wet Tropics) 110,656 7,681 971 1,673 421 1 2,547 298 74 4 257 13,927
Myrtle Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 29,516 1,339 159 60 29 479 150 2,216
Native Companion Creek (Burdekin) 548,474 153 < 1 99 33 10 295
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) 1,616,991 223 448 26 1,063 72 1,832
Normanby estuarine waters (incl. Bizant, Normanby, Saltwater and others adjacent Princess Charlotte Bay) (Eastern Cape York) 54,162 7,693 20,062 12 172 22 612 28,571
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) 48,766 543 64 252 14 51 26 949
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 0 273 643 412 2,142 3,470
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 84 7 12 9 113
Plane Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 15,963 808 159 65 14 3 1,049
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 25
Proserpine River Main Channel (Mackay Whitsunday) 8,490 0
Reliance Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 10,662 1,070 479 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 3,506 2,196 1,715 548 759 8,723
Rollston River (Burdekin) 144,919 < 1 < 1
Rosella Creek (Burdekin) 147,410 123 16 9 4 151
Rosetta Creek (Burdekin) 244,047 369 43 2 18 431
Ross River (Burdekin) 131,054 2,435 1,651 3 16 56 82 365 4,608
Running River (Burdekin) 110,538 < 1 < 1
Sandy Creek (Burdekin) 318,941 23 277 300
Sandy Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 49,935 608 227 399 34 98 25 1,392
Sarina Beaches (Mackay Whitsunday) 8,458 502 143 77 124 13 859
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 12,044 39 3,837 86 440 16,113 45,851
South Annan coastal creeks outside National Park (Eastern Cape York) 15,542 494 66 12 44 187 21 824
St Helens Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,566 1,312 145 4 7 1,469
Star River (Burdekin) 199,399 156 1 157
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 10,362 26 344 101 19 36 7,707 24,367
Temple Bay and Hudson Bay (Eastern Cape York) 5,735 4 4
Theresa Creek (Fitzroy) 1,149,860 203 78 28 541 849
Thompsons Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,013 2,629 1,054 442 2,037 437 1,890 8,490
Trevethan Creek outside National Park (Eastern Cape York) 9,497 1 1
Tully (Wet Tropics) 168,340 1,885 1 4 337 232 123 3,143 41 53 < 1 609 6,428
Upper Belyando River (Burdekin) 583,589 288 33 < 1 < 1 4 94 419
Upper Burdekin River (Burdekin) 448,172 534 176 2,302 4,449 701 3,473 540 206 504 106 12,991
Upper Cattle Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,841 0
Upper Dawson River (Fitzroy) 2,315,530 2,244 103 91 403 543 1,814 5,199
Upper Isaac River (Fitzroy) 1,012,469 367 249 443 1,168 617 7 2,852
Upper Proserpine River (Mackay Whitsunday) 26,621 0
Upper Suttor River (Burdekin) 515,807 174 12 13 24 140 59 43 464
Upstart Bay catchments (Burdekin) 129,031 4,744 744 19 18 6 3,062 8,593
Walker Bay (Eastern Cape York) 246 10 10
Walsh Bay (Eastern Cape York) 189 1 1
Waterhole Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 21,131 806 542 209 < 1 20 1,578
Waterpark Creek (Fitzroy) 184,786 20,453 3,051 4,419 1,345 706 < 1 3,578 1,256 34,808
Weary Bay (Eastern Cape York) 540 0
West Hill Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) 18,396 717 696 931 165 211 2,721
Weymouth Bay (Eastern Cape York) 4,352 9 9
Whitsunday Coast (Mackay Whitsunday) 19,560 647 39 8 3 13 710
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 2005 wetland habitat extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-habitat-2005/wqip.html

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