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 km across 46 river catchments. It is the seventh largest out of twelve separate drainage divisions covering Mainland Australia. Just under one half of all Australian freshwater species are found in the north east coast division.
See also
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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