Study area 2019 wetland system extents

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

2019 wetland system extent by study area
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Study area	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	1,359,762	4,338	23,525	165	2,883	530	45,794	625	15,581	93,441
Cairns Urban	62,327	511	4,573	165		4	491	5	492	6,241
Great Sandy Strait	1,218,935	3,589	15,353		2,849	393	33,138	347	14,731	70,399
Pumicestone Passage	78,501	238	3,599	< 1	34	133	12,166	272	358	16,801

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

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.