The drainage 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. The
Gulf of Carpentaria drainage basin is to the north-west, while
Lake Eyre Basin and the
Murray-Darling Basin are further south-west. The
Australian south-east coast drainage division lies to the south of the border with
New South Wales and is also to the east of the Great Dividing Range. The basin covers 450,705 km2 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==