MRI near Palm Island, QLD

No practice in Palm Island is accredited for MRI. The nearest one is at Queensland X-Ray Domain Central in Garbutt, about 63 km away, roughly about 11 hours by road. After that, the options are Queensland X-Ray North Queensland Cowboys Stadium in Railway Estate (64 km) and Queensland X-Ray Mater Hyde Park in Hyde Park (64 km).

There are eight MRI practices within 200 km of Palm Island altogether — the five listed are simply the nearest.

All of them are on the Australian Government's list of Medicare-eligible MRI locations (last updated 17 February 2026), so a Medicare rebate is possible for scans done there. Whether your scan attracts one depends on the item your referral asks for and on who wrote it — GPs can request a limited set of MRI items and specialists can request more.

Palm Island is not without imaging — x-ray and ultrasound are available in town. The town page lists everything Palm Island has.

To put 63 km in context: of the 1062 QLD towns we hold, 130 are further than Palm Island from a MRI service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

Queensland has 140 MRI practices in total, 71 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Palm Island is where it is.

The register has these accreditations running to: Queensland X-Ray Domain Central to 31 May 2027, Queensland X-Ray North Queensland Cowboys Stadium to 31 August 2027 and Queensland X-Ray Mater Hyde Park to 30 June 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the five practices listed, all publish a phone number, all have a website and three list opening hours. Ring before you go rather than assuming — hours move, and not every accredited scan runs every day.