Local government area 2017 wetland system extents

Definition of local government area

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

2017 wetland system extent by local government area
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Local government 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)	lacustrine (unknown degree of modification)	palustrine (natural)	palustrine (slightly modified)	riverine
Total	172,958,711	316,760	1,149,172	4,396	513,943	39,071	61	2,841,642	83,794	2,577,092	7,525,930
Aurukun	732,422	3	33,276					34,777		4,502	72,558
Balonne	3,107,355	46,132			1,562	829		9,321	4,162	17,029	79,036
Banana	2,854,893	7,505			2,105	1,291		4,952	782	17,060	33,695
Barcaldine	5,343,937	1,648			6,864	376		27,700	262	28,881	65,731
Barcoo	6,225,666	464			83,777	167		223,726	330	142,819	451,282
Blackall-Tambo	3,058,028	1,342				471		1,571	72	12,371	15,827
Boulia	6,094,500	665			9,230	136		56,199	198	54,868	121,295
Brisbane	133,702	1,508	2,897	264	175	137	1	2,876	354	1,849	10,062
Bulloo	7,323,473	492			104,832	156	1	366,570	269	74,480	546,800
Bundaberg	643,060	10,637	4,812	17	13	982	4	9,094	222	16,801	42,583
Burdekin	501,407	3,129	38,015	511	112	1,770	1	4,753	9,941	22,267	80,500
Burke	4,014,624	987	157,914			544		49,182	265	85,093	293,986
Cairns	169,322	2,106	5,973	165		22	< 1	5,585	10	2,236	16,098
Carpentaria	6,416,297	2,588	315,436		2,785	1,050	4	143,031	1,476	192,709	659,079
Cassowary Coast	468,768	752	24,222	12	10	26		15,599	143	3,966	44,732
Central Highlands	5,978,961	32,164			3,436	2,917	2	13,437	1,687	58,214	111,856
Charters Towers	6,832,318	17,244			16,918	949	< 1	39,918	525	207,197	282,751
Cherbourg	3,176	3						2		23	28
Cloncurry	4,800,047	2,481				682		7,751	147	112,178	123,239
Cook	10,563,820	2,667	114,322		3,717	328		171,190	295	84,143	376,662
Croydon	2,950,931	202				132	2	28,494	237	48,063	77,130
Diamantina	9,466,497	207			256,621	282		945,847	56	190,352	1,393,365
Doomadgee	182,048	3	13,450					2,900	3	1,063	17,419
Douglas	242,258	62	4,855	12		9	< 1	2,424	1	2,317	9,681
Etheridge	3,922,447	2,442			482	708		25,324	224	108,082	137,263
Flinders	4,122,976	1,433			1,704	646	4	10,683	382	31,616	46,468
Fraser Coast	710,304	2,399	20,353		2,824	434	7	29,647	511	9,234	65,409
Gladstone	1,046,687	3,918	51,480	149	22	4,461	< 1	9,322	415	12,493	82,261
Gold Coast	131,543	2,652	6,982			425	2	2,078	534	1,075	13,748
Goondiwindi	1,927,347	17,705			212	684		4,894	1,934	20,194	45,623
Gympie	688,750	1,862	1,317		43	22		14,500	28	8,142	25,913
Hinchinbrook	279,886	532	14,001	2		8		7,168	812	9,068	31,591
Hope Vale	111,037	14	1,261		1,600			6,286	11	1,065	10,237
Ipswich	109,316	578				43		988	74	1,334	3,016
Isaac	5,866,105	15,099	29,765	946	540	3,658	4	14,140	8,972	84,640	157,763
Kowanyama	251,607	28	20,979		6			10,497	2	13,356	44,867
Livingstone	1,170,132	6,042	69,511	33	121	217		15,235	27,278	22,110	140,547
Lockhart River	360,008	3	9,134		9			1,124		9,814	20,082
Lockyer Valley	226,928	769				421	< 1	694	172	5,135	7,192
Logan	95,787	351	165			40	< 1	1,204	73	1,086	2,920
Longreach	4,056,045	1,024			48	569	< 1	420	87	49,082	51,230
Mackay	759,329	5,122	29,066	54	13	97	1	5,846	1,489	14,696	56,383
Mapoon	48,778		5,661					5,614		256	11,531
Maranoa	5,871,241	4,910			35	1,418		7,896	799	22,799	37,857
Mareeba	5,336,639	2,010			449	3,984		23,905	120	116,650	147,118
Mckinlay	4,073,302	948				135		39,090	842	63,033	104,049
Moreton Bay	203,800	3,468	4,916	1	34	401	8	8,687	246	2,119	19,881
Mornington	120,483	45	16,532					1,322		4	17,903
Mount Isa	4,320,811	4,474				1,155		10,120	3	125,620	141,373
Murweh	4,069,886	978			881	484		19,832	797	30,631	53,603
Napranum	198,237		15,925					10,971		1,090	27,985
Noosa	86,999	457	627		206	24		10,250	11	2,938	14,514
North Burnett	1,967,052	6,209				272		628	108	19,551	26,767
Northern Peninsula Area	101,970	< 1	1,618		76			13,599		1,051	16,345
Palm Island	6,856	12	46			9		58		14	140
Paroo	4,762,843	740			6,713	213		124,502	2,398	10,745	145,310
Pormpuraaw	438,210	46	17,398					32,774		1,863	52,080
Quilpie	6,745,663	722			249	182		88,952	209	59,691	150,006
Redland	53,839	248	4,143	26	310	66	< 1	5,959	28	9	10,789
Richmond	2,658,427	754				90		12,447	286	27,353	40,930
Rockhampton	654,851	4,910	20,811	46	382	968		2,928	4,042	5,926	40,012
Scenic Rim	424,149	3,169				65		949	153	3,510	7,845
Somerset	537,365	17,046				15	1	176	130	8,626	25,993
South Burnett	837,856	5,544				145		388	37	10,140	16,253
Southern Downs	707,743	4,372			30	8		315	44	8,891	13,660
Sunshine Coast	226,350	2,400	2,577	282	3	283	1	12,074	909	6,092	24,622
Tablelands	1,138,091	6,605			2,110	302	8	14,414	919	22,785	47,143
Toowoomba	1,297,638	7,559			20	100		768	73	6,470	14,991
Torres	89,793	93	29,630		95			3,961		510	34,289
Torres Strait Island	47,773		17,928		2			472		470	18,872
Townsville	372,785	7,386	16,218	114		282		1,524	1,793	11,642	38,959
Weipa	1,015	9	9					13			31
Western Downs	3,794,332	11,312			256	1,326	< 1	3,892	957	13,609	31,353
Whitsunday	2,383,116	21,899	25,797	1,761	14	816	2	8,423	4,386	71,779	134,877
Winton	5,381,026	1,445			2,294	635		45,331	63	137,815	187,584
Woorabinda	39,303	24			5	6		250	5	642	933
Wujal Wujal	1,173									22	22
Yarrabah	15,569	3	151					2,210		44	2,409

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