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]

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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.

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