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Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other 2005 wetland system extents

Definition of Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

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2005 wetland system extent by Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other metadata
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Aquatic Conservation Assessment 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
Baffle to Fitzroy coastal region 418,492 72 77,186 152 85 247 < 1 2,774 5,971 478 86,965
Cape York catchments 10,777,744 1,560 246,114 5,383 187 262,393 305 87,345 603,288
Eastern Gulf of Carpentaria 30,296,090 8,141 228,495 3,251 5,624 11 284,000 2,495 667,919 1,199,936
Fitzroy Great Barrier Reef connecting catchments 16,607,241 65,598 196,924 1,194 6,660 11,743 8 60,584 45,205 188,529 576,445
Great Barrier Reef catchments 16,277,263 58,593 110,181 2,576 6,049 6,057 15 90,539 17,446 390,631 682,087
Lake Eyre and Bulloo basins 51,022,900 7,357 443,871 3,283 2 1,596,520 1,453 777,978 2,830,464
Queensland Murray-Darling and Bulloo basins 31,458,206 88,217 43,942 4,912 357,878 10,969 159,644 665,563
South East Queensland catchments 2,456,026 31,237 33,507 299 771 1,683 13 68,185 2,081 34,462 172,240
Southern Gulf catchments 8,546,795 6,327 299,623 1,408 2,910 84,995 898 204,618 600,779
Wide Bay-Burnett catchments 167,103 4,082 2,824 12,174 1 19,082
Wide Bay-Burnett Great Barrier Reef connecting catchments 5,307,305 27,445 25,260 17 13 1,897 11 29,079 1,151 74,560 159,434
Total 173,335,164 294,547 1,221,373 4,238 514,258 38,544 60 2,849,122 87,975 2,586,165 7,596,283

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of Aquatic Conservation Assessments (AquaBAMM) and others.

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.


This page should be cited as:

Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Queensland (2022) Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other 2005 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 4 August 2026. https://wetlandinfo.detsi.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2005/aca-bounding-area.html

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