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Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other 2019 wetland system extents

Definition of Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

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2019 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 71 77,123 177 85 247 < 1 2,770 5,971 478 86,923
Cape York catchments 10,777,744 2,666 246,113 5,383 184 262,313 305 87,328 604,293
Eastern Gulf of Carpentaria 30,296,090 9,528 228,488 3,251 5,715 11 283,329 2,786 663,754 1,196,864
Fitzroy Great Barrier Reef connecting catchments 16,607,241 74,588 196,442 1,238 6,575 11,960 9 59,499 45,449 187,128 582,890
Great Barrier Reef catchments 16,277,263 61,985 109,913 2,567 6,049 6,257 11 90,205 17,708 389,274 683,967
Lake Eyre and Bulloo basins 51,022,900 8,010 443,860 3,307 2 1,596,420 1,461 777,346 2,830,407
Queensland Murray-Darling and Bulloo basins 31,458,206 93,468 43,942 4,972 < 1 355,860 11,388 157,984 667,617
South East Queensland catchments 2,456,026 32,179 33,367 571 771 1,937 15 67,458 2,763 34,193 173,255
Southern Gulf catchments 8,546,795 7,045 299,623 1,408 2,854 84,989 898 204,643 601,460
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 28,546 25,238 17 13 1,918 11 28,807 1,195 74,136 159,881
Total 173,335,164 318,087 1,220,391 4,569 514,162 39,351 61 2,843,825 89,926 2,576,265 7,606,637

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 2019 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 4 August 2026. https://wetlandinfo.detsi.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2019/aca-bounding-area.html

Queensland Government
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