Australian north-east coast drainage division

The north-east coast drainage division or north-east coast basin is the area of Queensland 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. In the north it meets the Gulf of Carpentaria basin to its west while further south lies the Lake Eyre Basin and the Murray-Darling Basin. In the south the Australian south-east coast drainage division continues to the east of the Great Divide.

The basin covers 450,705 km² across 46 river catchments.^[1] It is the seventh largest out of twelve separate drainage divisions covering Mainland Australia.^[2] Just under one half of all Australian freshwater species are found in the north east coast division.^[3]

See also

• Water portal
• Environment portal
• Australia portal

• Southwest corner of Western Australia
• Indian Ocean drainage division: see Pilbara region of Western Australia
• Timor Sea drainage division: see Top End and Kimberley region of Western Australia
• South Australian gulf drainage division
• Western Plateau

References

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Pusey, Brad; Mark Kennard; Angela Arthington (2004). Freshwater Fishes of North-Eastern Australia. Csiro Publishing. p. 84. ISBN 9780643098954. Retrieved 25 July 2017.

External links

• north-east coast drainage division at the Biodiversity Information Resources and Data