Rivers & Lakes · QLD
Queensland
17,030 named waters
67 catchments
4 drainage divisions
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How Queensland drains
67 catchments, clipped at the border — a catchment that crosses into another state carries on there. Pick one to open its full drainage tree.
Catchment boundaries and stream network: Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric (Geofabric), Bureau of Meteorology, © Commonwealth of Australia, CC BY 4.0. State boundary: Australian Bureau of Statistics, CC BY 4.0. Simplified for display.
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Waters written up so far
The catchments
67 across 4 divisions
North East Coast
45 catchments · 8,582 waters in QLD
Baffle Creek
Barron River
Black River
Boyne River
Brisbane River
Burdekin River
Burnett River
Burrum River
Calliope River
Cardwell Coast
Curtis Island
Daintree River
Don River
Endeavour River
Fitzroy River (QLD)
Fraser Island
Haughton River
Herbert River
Hinchinbrook Island
Jacky Jacky Creek
Jeannie River
Johnstone River
Kolan River
Lockhart River
Logan-Albert Rivers
Maroochy River
Mary River (QLD)
Mossman River
Mulgrave-Russell Rivers
Noosa River
Normanby River
O'connell River
Olive-Pascoe Rivers
Pine River
Pioneer River
Plane Creek
Proserpine River
Ross River
Shoalwater Creek
South Coast
Stewart River
Stradbroke Island
Styx River
Tully-Murray Rivers
Water Park Creek
Carpentaria Coast
14 catchments · 4,032 waters in QLDLake Eyre Basin
3 catchments · 3,050 waters in QLDMurray-Darling Basin
5 catchments · 1,369 waters in QLDLooking beyond Queensland? The national map shows all 218 catchments, and each catchment page lists its drainage wherever it runs.