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Great Sandy Strait DIWA nationally important wetlandAccess wetland mapping in PDF and KML format by selecting the desired 100K map tile below or download the data via the Queensland Government Information Service. The below map is for visual representation purposes only. For more detailed mapping, please download the boundary KML. Drag this bar to relocate the map on your screen Open WetlandMaps interactive map server
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| System | Area (km²) | % wetlands area | % total area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 209.2 | 100.0% | 22.7% |
| Artificial and highly modified | 0.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Estuarine | 172.9 | 82.7% | 18.8% |
| Palustrine | 36.2 | 17.3% | 3.9% |
| Riverine | 0.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Habitat | Area (km²) | % wetlands area | % total area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 209.2 | 100.0% | 22.7% |
| Estuarine - mangroves and related tree communities | 133.5 | 63.8% | 14.5% |
| Estuarine - salt flats and saltmarshes | 39.4 | 18.8% | 4.3% |
| Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain tree swamp—Melaleuca spp. and Eucalypus spp. | 8.8 | 4.2% | 1.0% |
| Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain wet heath swamp | 13.6 | 6.5% | 1.5% |
| Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain grass sedge and herb swamp | 2.7 | 1.3% | 0.3% |
| Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain tree swamp—Melaleuca spp. and Eucalypus spp. | 10.4 | 5.0% | 1.1% |
| Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain wet heath swamp | 0.4 | 0.2% | 0.0% |
| Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain grass, sedge, herb swamp | 0.3 | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| Artificial and highly modified wetlands (dams, ring tanks, irrigation channels) | 0.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Riverine | 0.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
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.
Wetland extent changes
| System | 2017 area (km²) |
2013 area (km²) |
2009 area (km²) |
2005 area (km²) |
2001 area (km²) |
2017/pre-clear percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 209.2 | 209.2 | 209.3 | 209.3 | 209.5 | * 96.8% |
| Artificial and highly modified | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | n/a |
| Estuarine | 172.9 | 172.9 | 172.9 | 172.9 | 172.9 | 99.5% |
| Palustrine | 36.2 | 36.2 | 36.2 | 36.3 | 36.5 | 86.3% |
| Riverine | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | n/a |
* Total 2017/pre-clear percentage excludes artificial and highly modified
View 2017 wetland system extents for all DIWA nationally important wetlands
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View 2017/pre-clear wetland system extent percentages for all DIWA nationally important wetlands
| Habitat | 2017 area (km²) |
2013 area (km²) |
2009 area (km²) |
2005 area (km²) |
2001 area (km²) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 209.2 | 209.2 | 209.3 | 209.3 | 209.5 |
| Estuarine - mangroves and related tree communities | 133.5 | 133.6 | 133.5 | 133.5 | 133.5 |
| Estuarine - salt flats and saltmarshes | 39.4 | 39.4 | 39.4 | 39.4 | 39.4 |
| Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain tree swamp—Melaleuca spp. and Eucalypus spp. | 8.8 | 8.8 | 8.8 | 8.9 | 8.9 |
| Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain wet heath swamp | 13.6 | 13.6 | 13.6 | 13.6 | 13.6 |
| Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain grass sedge and herb swamp | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.7 |
| Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain tree swamp—Melaleuca spp. and Eucalypus spp. | 10.4 | 10.4 | 10.5 | 10.5 | 10.5 |
| Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain wet heath swamp | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.6 |
| Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain grass, sedge, herb swamp | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Artificial and highly modified wetlands (dams, ring tanks, irrigation channels) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Riverine | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
View 2017 wetland habitat area for all DIWA nationally important wetlands
View 2013 wetland habitat area for all DIWA nationally important wetlands
View 2009 wetland habitat area for all DIWA nationally important wetlands
View 2005 wetland habitat area for all DIWA nationally important wetlands
View 2001 wetland habitat area for all DIWA nationally important wetlands
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.
Drainage divisions 
Drainage basins
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Regional natural resource management (NRM) bodies
Local government areas
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Climate zones
Subtropical
Bioregions
Biogeographic subregions
IBRA bioregions
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Bioregional assessment areas
Marine meso-scale bioregions
- Tweed-Moreton (TM)
Marine provincial bioregions
- Central Eastern Shelf Transition
Regional plans
World Heritage areas
Ramsar internationally important wetlands
National parks
Marine parks (Queensland)
Study areas
Report cards
Conservation parks
State forests
- Fraser Island State Forest
- Tuan State Forest
Forest reserves
Resources reserves
Timber reserves
Fish habitat areas
Coastal management district
- Available (all have been combined since February 2012)
Nature refuges
Freshwater biogeographic provinces
Aquatic Conservation Assessments (AquaBAMM) and others
Wetland (aquatic ecosystem) type—conceptual models
- Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain grass, sedge, herb swamp
- Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain tree swamp—Melaleuca spp. and Eucalypus spp.
- Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain wet heath swamp
- Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain grass sedge and herb swamp
- Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain tree swamp—Melaleuca spp. and Eucalypus spp.
- Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain wet heath swamp
Wetland (aquatic ecosystem) type—management profiles
Groundwater dependent ecosystem type—conceptual models
Healthy Land and Water conceptual models
Water resource planning areas
Aquatic ecosystem monitoring programs
- Aerial surveys of waterbirds in eastern Australia
- Central Queensland ambient estuary program
- Environmental flows assessment program (EFAP)
- Groundwater ambient network (GWAN) – water quality
- Groundwater water level network
- Long term historical trend water quality monitoring data
- Moreton Bay regional council waterway health monitoring program
- Queensland wetland mapping
- South East Queensland (SEQ) Catchments community water quality monitoring program
- Surface water monitoring network
Point source monitoring
Wetland soil indicator case studies
Wetland management case studies
Wetland projects
- Booral & Round Island Project Weed Management
- Coastal Community Engagement, Building Capacity Awareness of Natural Environment in the Wide Bay Burnett Region
- Community Foreshore Habitat Recovery and Rehabilitation Extension Program
- Community foreshore habitat recovery and rehabilitation program
- Community workshops and establishment of model landscaped coastal gardens in the Fraser Coast Regional Council
- Crab Creek native vegetation management
- Enhancement of pest control program—Poona
- Feral pig control, Great Sandy Strait/Ramsar Site
- Feral Pig Control in the Wide Bay Military Training Ground
- Fire hazard reduction and habitat protection—Crab Creek
- Healthy waterways, rivers and wetlands - improving water quality in the Burnett Mary
- Lawson—feral pig control on Eurimbula Creek
- Lower Poona Creek pest plant control project
- Maaroom foreshore habitat protection and community engagement project
- Management of visitor impacts at Jew hole recreation area, Big Tuan Creek
- Marine debris clean-up - mouth of the Mary River (Tandora)
- Mullens Wader Walk
- PCE 14/15 - Pig Control at Tandora
- PCE 14/15 - Revive Our Creeks (Cooloola Cove)
- PCE 14/15 - Tinnanbar Flower Reserve and Cowra Pine Wildling Control Project
- PCE - FIDO Weed Management and Environmental Monitoring at Eurong Fraser Island 14/15
- PCE - FIDO Weed Management at Happy Valley Fraser Island 14/15
- PCE - Great Sandy Strait Seagrass Monitoring - Cooloola Coastcare
- PCE - Junior Cooloola Coastcare - Ramsar Wetlands
- PCE -Kauri and Mosquito Creeks - Pest Species Management
- PCE - Pine Wilding Control in High Value Coastal Ecosystems - Crab Creek DNRM
- PCE - Ravenhills and Maddicks Road - Weed and feral animal control
- Pest and weed management: managing invasive species in the Burnett Mary Region
- Pest control program, Tuan State Forrest—Poona, Buttha and Kauri Creeks
- Pig Control at Tandora
- Poona Creek Pine wildling control
- Rainbow Beach environmental works—vehicle access restriction
- Ramsar site flood debris clean-up—Tandora
- Research Case Study: Recovering Australia's migratory shorebirds
- Secure plant stock and seeds to rehabilitate Nationally endangered ecological community (littoral rainforest and coastal vine thicket)—Poona
- Stabilisation of Buttha Campground 2, Buttha Creek, Poona
- Sustainable grazing management and on-ground works: conserving soils in the Burnett Mary Region
- The history and role of fire in the patterned fens—Great Sandy Strait, Queensland
- Tin Can Bay—Crab Creek environmental restoration works
- Tin Can Bay School Wetlands
- Towards the Integrated Management of Terrestrial and Aquatic Weeds of National State and Regional Significance
- Weed control, Gympie Regional Council—Ramsar site Snapper Creek
- Western Mary Sub-catchments Grazing Landscapes Project
Area specific conceptual model case studies
Water quality improvement plan catchments
EPP (Water) scheduled environmental values and water quality objectives
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Burrum, Gregory, Isis, Cherwell and Elliott Rivers (WQ1371)
- GSS1 (HEV)
- HB1 (HEV)
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Fraser Island Waters (WQ1391)
- FF/FL/PF/1 (HEV)
- GSS1 (HEV)
- HB1 (HEV)
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Great Sandy Strait and Coastal Creeks (WQ1402)
- FF/FL/PF/1 (HEV)
- GSS1 (HEV)
- HB1 (HEV)
- PF1 (HEV)
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Hervey Bay (WQ1372)
- HB1 (HEV)
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Mary River (WQ1381)
- GSS1 (HEV)
Shorebird zones
Biopassage structures
Related legislation/policies
Wildlife
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Kingdom
Class
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Native | Introduced | Wetland indicator species |
Rare or threatened species |
All |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TOTAL | 1835 | 177 | 321 | 77 | 2012 |
| Animals | 636 | 25 | 176 | 57 | 661 |
| Mammals | 76 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 87 |
| Birds | 367 | 7 | 91 | 28 | 374 |
| Reptiles | 83 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 84 |
| Amphibians | 30 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 31 |
| Ray-finned fishes | 38 | 4 | 41 | 2 | 42 |
| Cartilaginous fishes | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Insects | 37 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 38 |
| Malacostracans | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Bacteria | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Chromists | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Fungi | 190 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 190 |
| Plants | 987 | 152 | 145 | 20 | 1139 |
| Protozoans | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Note: Wildlife statistics are based on information that has been submitted to the DES WildNet database and converted to a 10km² grid. The grid information has been intersected with the mapping polygons to determine the species lists. Click here to view the species grid metadata.
Information from WildNet can also be accessed via Wildlife Online and WetlandMaps.
Rare or threatened includes species listed as extinct, extinct in the wild, critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable or conservation dependent under either the Nature Conservation Act or Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
Disclaimer: While every care is taken to ensure the accuracy of this product, the Queensland Government and Australian Government make no representations or warranties about its accuracy, reliability, completeness or suitability for any particular purpose and disclaim all responsibility and all liability (including without limitation, liability in negligence) for all expenses, losses, damages (including indirect or consequential damage) and costs which might be incurred as a consequence of reliance on the product, or as a result of the product being inaccurate or incomplete in any way and for any reason.
This page should be cited as:
Department of Environment and Science, Queensland (2013) Great Sandy Strait DIWA nationally important wetland — facts and maps, WetlandInfo website, accessed 13 April 2023. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/facts-maps/diwa-wetland-great-sandy-strait/
— Department of Environment and Science