Drainage division 2009 wetland system extents

Definition of drainage division

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

2009 wetland system extent by drainage division
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Drainage division	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	172,795,463	299,721	1,073,382	3,829	514,425	37,112	2,829,726	79,549	2,436,016	7,273,760
Bulloo	5,203,638	398			20,125	126	149,983	253	16,667	187,552
Gulf	45,317,909	16,754	635,106		4,508	8,398	547,465	2,563	907,269	2,122,063
Lake Eyre	50,994,021	7,611			444,611	3,222	1,594,046	1,370	656,253	2,707,114
Murray Darling	26,254,125	86,858			23,580	4,668	202,413	9,979	136,213	463,711
North East Coast	45,025,770	188,100	438,276	3,829	21,601	20,698	335,819	65,383	719,614	1,793,320

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

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.