Australian north-east coast drainage division

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The north-east coast drainage division or north-east coast basin is a drainage basin in Queensland, Australia. [1]

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Geography

The drainage between the Great Dividing Range and the Pacific Ocean. It lies between Torres Strait and an arbitrary line drawn along the Queensland–New South Wales border. The Gulf of Carpentaria drainage basin is to the north-west, [2] while Lake Eyre Basin and the Murray-Darling Basin are further south-west. [3] [4] The Australian south-east coast drainage division lies to the south of the border with New South Wales and is also to the east of the Great Dividing Range.

The basin covers 450,705 km2 across 46 river catchments. [5] It is the seventh largest out of twelve separate drainage divisions covering Mainland Australia. [6] Just under one half of all Australian freshwater species are found in the north–east coast division. [7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "North East Coast drainage division — facts and maps". WetlandInfo. Queensland Government. Retrieved 29 January 2026.
  2. ↑ "Gulf drainage division — facts and maps". WetlandInfo. Queensland Government. Retrieved 29 January 2026.
  3. ↑ "Lake Eyre drainage division — facts and maps". WetlandInfo. Queensland Government. Retrieved 29 January 2026.
  4. ↑ "Murray Darling drainage division — facts and maps". WetlandInfo. Queensland Government. Retrieved 29 January 2026.
  5. ↑ Finlayson, C.M.; Arnold van der Valk (2012). Classification and Inventory of the World’s Wetlands. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 84. ISBN   9789401104272 . Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  6. ↑ Ghassemi, Fereidoun; Ian White (2007). Inter-Basin Water Transfer: Case Studies from Australia, United States, Canada, China and India. Cambridge University Press. p. 67. ISBN   9781139463041 . Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  7. ↑ Pusey, Brad; Mark Kennard; Angela Arthington (2004). Freshwater Fishes of North-Eastern Australia. Csiro Publishing. p. 84. ISBN   9780643098954 . Retrieved 25 July 2017.


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