Drainage basin 2019 wetland system extents

Definition of drainage basin

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

2019 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)	palustrine (natural)	palustrine (slightly modified)	riverine
Total	172,970,898	313,243	1,138,408	4,194	514,431	37,577	2,829,079	80,718	2,427,926	7,345,576
Arafura Sea	26,297		8,637				251			8,888
Archer	1,380,035	98	14,757			10	29,055		10,380	54,300
Baffle	407,766	1,009	13,599		13	140	10,373	294	6,805	32,233
Balonne-Condamine	13,664,954	63,517			3,931	2,645	112,963	7,286	47,019	237,361
Barron	219,333	4,705	976	< 1	111	69	279	141	4,037	10,320
Black	105,519	761	1,038			13	374	45	3,420	5,652
Border Rivers	2,381,978	18,208			197	635	4,006	1,312	26,973	51,331
Boyne	249,301	2,081	1,638	5		4,218	4	36	3,808	11,791
Brisbane	1,354,920	21,085	652	116		534	3,479	610	21,740	48,216
Bulloo	5,203,638	414			20,125	126	149,967	253	16,667	187,551
Burdekin	13,010,930	41,086	2,251		5,032	4,528	50,177	2,472	310,128	415,674
Burnett	3,320,998	14,182	1,057	8		1,060	1,485	242	34,098	52,132
Burrum	335,101	3,292	2,755	8		84	8,924	182	10,859	26,105
Calliope	224,863	861	7,673	28	22	160	49	34	946	9,774
Coleman	1,278,450	84	18,792			4	49,311		11,161	79,353
Cooper Creek	24,386,792	4,158			164,534	1,957	504,440	1,019	223,820	899,927
Coral Sea	140,549	39	50,831	70	16	42	1,114	8	73	52,194
Curtis Island	57,804	10	14,427				748		174	15,359
Daintree	210,458	8	3,275	3			2,272		2,010	7,568
Diamantina	11,911,000	1,653			111,814	873	674,945	125	272,372	1,061,783
Don	374,512	1,300	17,007	1,884		98	677	3,599	9,028	33,593
Ducie	674,551	7	25,198				26,899		1,860	53,963
Embley	458,378	1,131	36,795			141	16,729	248	502	55,546
Endeavour	218,630	143	2,685		81	11	2,568	32	4,132	9,652
Fitzroy	14,248,292	58,825	28,641	30	6,778	6,544	31,646	11,909	147,714	292,087
Flinders	10,929,807	4,098	40,903		741	604	37,955	475	201,170	285,945
Fraser Island	165,949		3,442		2,821		13,110		1	19,374
Georgina	14,401,525	2,137			160,921	409	414,604	226	159,833	738,130
Gilbert	4,636,998	2,715	51,153		655	530	42,603	300	173,216	271,172
Haughton	407,055	1,891	31,695	365	92	1,002	4,382	8,445	13,579	61,452
Hay	279,520				5,797		63			5,860
Herbert	987,310	1,331	13,787	2	462	205	12,116	1,210	27,320	56,432
Hinchinbrook Island	39,692		8,096				529		178	8,803
Holroyd	1,030,690	26	5,578		< 1		21,410		5,092	32,108
Jacky Jacky	297,162		25,385		2,511		15,458		785	44,138
Jardine	327,317	< 1	2,346				17,783		1,518	21,648
Jeannie	362,572	11	16,716		1,605		7,090	11	3,116	28,549
Johnstone	231,781	347	3,518	12	4	3	4,407	43	1,673	10,006
Kolan	290,501	6,439	1,476			231	469	36	4,691	13,342
Lake Frome	15,184				1,535		3			1,538
Leichhardt	3,288,217	5,743	33,045		199	2,206	29,490	675	87,561	158,919
Lockhart	288,360	4	12,277		57		2,232		6,915	21,485
Logan-Albert	413,866	3,289	2,057	< 1		164	3,191	136	3,519	12,357
Maroochy	153,905	1,948	4,038	282	37	387	16,037	1,042	3,765	27,537
Mary	947,833	3,549	4,198			391	6,408	347	14,728	29,622
Mitchell	7,162,243	2,402	37,111		1,299	4,140	87,211	114	162,028	294,305
Moonie	1,465,738	5,419			10	719	1,084	359	4,886	12,477
Moreton Bay Islands	57,057	216	7,364		485	20	6,295	31		14,412
Morning	368,867	373	77,886		1,259	167	2,515	18	6,695	88,912
Mornington Island	99,830	45	11,807				1,075		4	12,931
Mossman	46,574	85	1,633	9		11	165	1	402	2,307
Mulgrave-Russell	198,740	1,660	4,837	164	38		8,256	5	1,980	16,940
Murray	110,739	327	8,250		2	2	5,208	36	488	14,313
Nicholson	3,574,411	868	113,958			457	30,258	204	101,780	247,525
Noosa	195,578	126	8,844		249	27	33,656	11	1,593	44,507
Norman	5,066,736	397	65,679		105	141	86,301	533	75,622	228,778
Normanby	2,438,587	657	28,193		78	17	40,262	14	23,213	92,434
O'Connell	238,873	921	12,981	20		50	1,056	178	3,058	18,263
Olive-Pascoe	417,294		4,652		1,073		4,506		6,076	16,307
Paroo	3,523,770	200			18,918	99	65,379	578	19,803	104,977
Pine	148,279	3,207	4,267	146		341	3,370	345	1,575	13,251
Pioneer	157,452	1,754	754			< 1	436		3,665	6,609
Plane	254,423	1,908	18,244	53	13	45	7,181	1,549	4,026	33,020
Proserpine	250,002	5,113	12,473	11	2	10	6,811	1,629	2,841	28,889
Ross	170,598	6,098	13,757	114		172	851	1,321	5,162	27,475
Settlement	1,188,868	4	58,810			5	16,762		8,561	84,142
Shoalwater	359,579	1,231	29,213				288	20,334	5,444	56,509
South Coast	130,572	2,318	3,318			408	1,723	524	1,313	9,604
Staaten	2,570,527	83	18,794		247	6	28,287	29	49,271	96,717
Stewart	275,475	10	6,440				2,149		5,403	14,001
Styx	301,068	1,325	26,512	828	26	88	863	7,306	5,037	41,986
Torres Strait Islands	57,023	92	5,329		2		618		664	6,704
Tully	167,593	1,598	1,891		8	15	4,362	83	1,547	9,504
Warrego	5,216,183	2,106			525	566	18,353	438	35,840	57,829
Waterpark	182,282	119	25,281	33		45	8,862	2,284	5,521	42,145
Watson	469,442	389	6,837				5,435		2,259	14,921
Wenlock	755,519	6	10,321			2	17,407		3,783	31,519
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.