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Catchment story 2019 wetland system extents

Definition of catchment story

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

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2019 wetland system extent by catchment story metadata
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Catchment story 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 323,329,230 253,794 375,274 2,250 1,341,095 31,461 65 5,106,575 59,325 3,121,339 10,291,177
Albert 78,302 290 36 55 225 46 1,057 1,709
Baffle 406,878 1,014 13,237 13 144 3 10,759 334 7,197 32,700
Barron 208,591 4,364 972 < 1 111 108 < 1 307 116 3,991 9,970
Black 105,453 766 1,027 14 420 45 3,438 5,710
Bohle 36,696 143 2,512 3 7 200 577 949 4,390
Bremer 202,300 1,548 58 1,556 139 1,680 4,982
Burnett 3,320,978 14,208 1,084 8 1,061 1,740 242 35,329 53,672
Caboolture 46,620 389 1,121 227 < 1 2,148 115 471 4,472
Cairns Urban 62,327 522 4,875 165 18 < 1 535 5 534 6,655
Calliope 224,290 630 7,539 27 22 160 < 1 49 34 976 9,438
Coombabah 5,336 17 593 38 556 3 1,209
Cooper Creek 29,757,524 4,136 165,422 2,009 2 504,072 1,102 275,737 952,479
Daintree 210,434 8 3,287 3 < 1 2,303 2,062 7,664
Diamantina 15,742,838 1,725 110,503 887 677,519 134 339,477 1,130,245
Endeavour 218,553 134 2,658 81 12 2,571 32 4,100 9,588
Georgina 24,786,679 2,141 161,046 424 414,725 226 162,343 740,906
Great Sandy Strait 114,873 11 20,288 14 1,963 101 60 22,438
Great Sandy Strait and surrounding catchments 1,305,389 3,611 20,568 2,846 394 7 32,314 403 15,551 75,694
Great Sandy Strait mainland coastal catchments 100,796 34 8,082 22 13,285 < 1 < 1 21,424
Herbert 986,424 1,438 13,666 2 462 206 7 12,551 1,249 27,708 57,288
Jeannie 362,269 11 16,654 1,605 7,086 11 3,194 28,561
Johnstone 232,048 359 3,551 12 4 5 4,613 43 1,707 10,294
K'gari (Fraser Island) 166,170 3,408 2,824 12,097 1 18,330
Lake Eyre Basin 116,409,996 7,993 444,442 3,320 2 1,596,335 1,461 777,545 2,831,098
Lake Eyre Basin animation 90,456,967 8,003 438,520 3,320 2 1,596,319 1,461 777,557 2,825,183
Lockyer 296,991 1,638 431 1 811 280 7,332 10,494
Logan 308,168 2,483 1,255 26 65 2 1,644 127 2,646 8,249
Lower Brisbane 118,426 735 1,679 250 98 1 1,204 340 1,589 5,896
Lower Burdekin 1,453,007 13,949 33,125 365 125 2,082 1 4,835 9,328 74,770 138,580
Lower Fitzroy 1,143,245 9,040 28,576 46 503 1,064 8,487 8,693 14,203 70,612
Magnetic Island 4,994 248 28 37 312
Maroochy and Mooloolah 84,918 1,721 895 282 3 255 1 4,735 756 3,562 12,211
Mary River 914,820 3,432 1,465 372 7 3,429 131 15,549 24,385
Mid-Brisbane 55,583 675 < 1 < 1 6 11 1,365 2,058
Mossman 46,498 85 1,596 9 12 < 1 172 1 413 2,289
Mulgrave 131,479 122 4,410 164 38 < 1 3,137 1,525 9,396
Murray 110,676 327 8,141 2 2 5,307 36 540 14,356
Noosa 93,061 99 627 227 24 18,880 11 1,440 21,308
Normanby 1,472,185 657 8,028 78 16 16,884 11 16,149 41,822
Northern Gold Coast 65,525 356 3,399 166 < 1 1,500 18 705 6,144
O'Connell 238,265 918 12,624 6 48 < 1 1,052 230 3,084 17,962
Pine 81,323 2,749 2,201 12 93 2 869 45 955 6,926
Pioneer 157,375 1,793 714 < 1 439 4,319 7,265
Plane 253,988 1,935 18,135 53 13 48 7,618 1,436 4,029 33,267
Proserpine 249,444 5,152 12,231 11 2 8 2 6,836 1,630 3,352 29,224
Pumicestone 78,501 238 3,599 < 1 34 129 3 11,967 272 355 16,597
Redlands 27,746 506 1,103 < 1 49 1,287 18 41 3,004
Ross 133,484 5,943 11,121 112 164 647 745 4,261 22,991
Russell 67,046 1,537 625 5,311 5 523 8,000
Southern Gold Coast 65,399 1,944 110 248 < 1 228 506 606 3,643
Stanley 153,407 4,448 6 4 283 39 1,984 6,764
Susan River 33,815 145 2,928 22 3,269 272 6,636
Tully 167,544 1,617 1,944 8 19 4,360 83 1,636 9,668
Upper Brisbane 548,262 12,131 2 31 6 8,399 20,569
Water Park 184,786 111 25,957 33 57 8,884 2,416 5,557 43,014
Wider Brisbane 1,375,492 21,176 1,679 250 595 6 3,892 816 22,354 50,768
Wider Burdekin 13,415,375 43,490 33,125 365 5,626 5,620 3 50,275 11,106 324,233 473,843
Wider Fitzroy 14,249,673 59,143 28,576 46 6,512 7,283 6 32,020 12,075 151,163 296,824

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

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) Catchment story 2019 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 11 March 2026. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.detsi.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2019/catchment-story.html

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