 It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 8 June 2012.Fantome Island, located north of Townsville approximately off the coast of Queensland near Ingham and north-west of Palm Island in the Great Palm group of islands, was the site of a lock hospital between 1928 and 1945 and a lazaret (or leprosarium) between 1939 and 1973.Both facilities were used for the isolation of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander patients or inmates.