Great Barrier Reef Catchment Areas by NRM Region, 2012

Six Natural Resource Management regions define river catchments flowing into the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The dataset was created by the eAtlas for the NERP TE 13.1 project, derived from Geoscience Australia and Department of Environment sources. It is intended for research and display purposes and is not an authoritative source for official NRM boundaries.

Use Cases

• Map terrestrial nutrient runoff sources based on defined river catchment boundaries.
• Analyze regional environmental funding distribution based on the listed NRM regions.
• Create visualizations of coastal management zones based on the split mainland and sea area polygons.

Strengths

• Derived from authoritative base datasets including River Basins 1997 and NRM Regions 2012.
• Polygons were specifically processed to isolate catchments flowing into the Great Barrier Reef.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset creator states it is not an authoritative source for NRM boundaries.

Provenance

Source

Derived from River Basins 1997 (Geoscience Australia), NRM Regions 2012 (Department of Environment), and Australian Coast 100k 2004 (Geoscience Australia).

Collection Method

Processed in ArcMap by selecting relevant NRM regions, deleting others, and splitting the Cape York region along the Great Dividing Range.

Time Range

2012

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-13 16:54:52.026679; freshness should be verified.

Geography

River catchments neighbouring the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, covering six NRM regions in Queensland, Australia.