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Catchment story pre-clear wetland system extents

Definition of catchment story

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

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Pre-clear wetland system extent by catchment story metadata
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Catchment story Total area
(ha)
Wetland area by system Total
wetland area
(ha)
intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural) lacustrine (natural) palustrine (natural) riverine
Total 323,329,230 413,732 1,343,410 5,329,364 * n/a * n/a
Albert 78,302 48 530 1,687 2,265
Baffle 406,878 13,326 13 13,969 8,723 36,031
Barron 208,591 1,306 111 1,311 5,336 8,065
Black 105,453 1,059 508 3,939 5,506
Bohle 36,696 3,266 603 1,452 5,321
Bremer 202,300 3,753 2,994 6,747
Burnett 3,320,978 1,350 4,014 57,688 63,051
Caboolture 46,620 1,222 6,561 730 8,512
Cairns Urban 62,327 5,864 2,212 2,208 10,284
Calliope 224,290 8,609 22 48 1,220 9,899
Coombabah 5,336 646 1,098 1,744
Cooper Creek 29,757,524 165,599 505,903 280,183 951,685
Daintree 210,434 3,326 2,860 3,554 9,740
Diamantina 15,742,838 110,642 677,725 340,219 1,128,586
Endeavour 218,553 2,729 81 2,637 4,204 9,651
Georgina 24,786,679 161,124 414,776 162,409 738,309
Great Sandy Strait 114,873 20,425 2,637 67 23,129
Great Sandy Strait and surrounding catchments 1,305,389 20,752 2,846 45,937 25,898 95,433
Great Sandy Strait mainland coastal catchments 100,796 8,122 22 19,744 < 1 27,889
Herbert 986,424 15,062 462 28,326 34,597 78,447
Jeannie 362,269 16,659 1,644 7,093 3,197 28,592
Johnstone 232,048 3,766 4 10,152 1,799 15,720
K'gari (Fraser Island) 166,170 3,400 2,824 12,218 1 18,444
Lake Eyre Basin 116,409,996 444,837 1,598,422 782,800 2,826,059
Lake Eyre Basin animation 90,456,967 438,915 1,598,407 782,811 2,820,134
Lockyer 296,991 3,083 8,715 11,798
Logan 308,168 1,663 5,894 5,451 13,009
Lower Brisbane 118,426 4,084 4,809 4,519 13,411
Lower Burdekin 1,453,007 37,878 217 9,607 83,858 131,559
Lower Fitzroy 1,143,245 32,881 628 16,856 15,914 66,279
Magnetic Island 4,994 248 33 42 323
Maroochy and Mooloolah 84,918 1,189 3 15,744 8,951 25,887
Mary River 914,820 1,509 8,506 25,895 35,910
Mid-Brisbane 55,583 15 2,260 2,275
Mossman 46,498 1,750 459 896 3,106
Mulgrave 131,479 5,055 38 5,150 4,105 14,348
Murray 110,676 8,157 10,845 681 19,683
Noosa 93,061 704 227 20,522 * n/a * n/a
Normanby 1,472,185 8,027 78 16,942 16,178 41,226
Northern Gold Coast 65,525 4,915 7,922 1,557 14,395
O'Connell 238,265 12,977 4,199 4,666 21,842
Pine 81,323 2,760 2,163 2,066 6,990
Pioneer 157,375 937 4,437 6,450 11,825
Plane 253,988 19,029 30,061 5,330 54,420
Proserpine 249,444 12,671 2 12,584 * n/a * n/a
Pumicestone 78,501 3,994 34 24,707 521 29,256
Redlands 27,746 1,272 2,423 76 3,771
Ross 133,484 12,057 582 6,146 18,785
Russell 67,046 623 9,815 585 11,023
Southern Gold Coast 65,399 302 5,060 1,716 7,078
Stanley 153,407 421 3,715 4,136
Susan River 33,815 3,034 5,235 8,270
Tully 167,544 1,918 2 11,785 1,832 15,537
Upper Brisbane 548,262 131 14,494 14,625
Water Park 184,786 28,317 9,179 7,988 45,484
Wider Brisbane 1,375,492 4,084 12,212 36,714 53,009
Wider Burdekin 13,415,375 37,878 5,719 57,572 343,375 444,544
Wider Fitzroy 14,249,673 32,881 7,316 48,966 166,587 255,749

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

* Pre-clear riverine wetland statistics are not available in this area. A comprehensive evaluation is currently underway of the effect of identified limitations on the statistical analysis process used to monitor wetland extent change. During this time, selected riverine wetland statistics will be temporarily unavailable as they may be disproportionately impacted. It is expected that this evaluation will be completed in late 2024.

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

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