Fantome Island Lock Hospital and Lazaret Sites
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Ruins at Fantome Island, 2011
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| Location | Fantome Island, Palm Island, Aboriginal Shire of Palm Island, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 18°41′13″S 146°30′57″E / 18.687°S 146.5159°ECoordinates: 18°41′13″S 146°30′57″E / 18.687°S 146.5159°E |
| Design period | 1919 - 1930s (interwar period) |
| Built | 1926-1945 |
| Official name: Fantome Island Lock Hospital and Lazaret Sites (former) | |
| Type | state heritage (built, archaeological, landscape) |
| Designated | 8 June 2012 |
| Reference no. | 602798 |
| Significant period | Lock Hospital (1928-45); Lazaret (1939-73) |
| Significant components | artefact field, grave surrounds/railings, burial/grave, dam/reservoir, tank stand, pathway/walkway, slab/s - concrete, wall/s - stockade/pallisade, tank - water, building foundations/ruins, artefact field, track, grave marker, well, flagpole/flagstaff, grotto, building foundations/ruins, tank - water, pump, hut/shack, cemetery, pathway/walkway, slab/s - concrete, tank - storage |
| Builders | Queensland Government |
 Location of Fantome Island Lock Hospital and Lazaret Sites in Queensland
Location of Fantome Island Lock Hospital and Lazaret Sites in Queensland
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Fantome Island Lock Hospital and Lazaret Sites is a heritage-listed former leper colony at Fantome Island, Palm Island, Aboriginal Shire of Palm Island, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1926 to 1945 by Queensland Government. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 8 June 2012.
Fantome Island, located north of Townsville approximately 22 km off the coast of Queensland near Ingham and 6.5 kilometres 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. The archaeological remnants on the island are representative of the responses of former Queensland governments to the public health issues of sexually transmitted infections (STIs, previously known as venereal diseases, or VD) and Hansen's disease (leprosy) as they affected Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander people. The island has a long history as a site of segregation and as an example of the working of the Aboriginal Protection Acts.
In February 1925 the Home Secretary's Department proposed a lock hospital on Fantome Island in conjunction with the Palm Island Aboriginal Settlement. The traditional owners of Fantome Island (also known as Emulli) are the Manbarra people, while those removed from elsewhere in Queensland to Palm and Fantome islands are known as the Bwgcolman people. Fantome Island was declared a Reserve for the use of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of the State (R.297, or Reserve 3771) in the Queensland Government Gazette of 17 October 1925. The trustees were the Under Secretary of the Home Department (WJ Gall) and the Chief Protector of Aboriginals (JW Bleakley). Prior to this Fantome had been held as Occupation License 297 and there was a small area of cleared land at its northern end. Apart from a well, fires had destroyed any other infrastructure and the island was unoccupied by 1925.
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