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Skye, Victoria
Skye is a suburb and semi-rural locality in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 48 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district via the Monash Freeway, located within the City of Frankston local government area. Skye recorded a population of 8,088 at the . History Skye Post Office opened on 1 June 1889 and closed in 1895. In 1964, Lyndhurst South office (open since 1902) was renamed Skye. This office closed in 1972. There are still a couple of houses standing from the 1890s today in Skye. Prior to 15 December 1994, Skye was a part of the City of Cranbourne (formerly the Shire of Cranbourne until April 1994). It still shares the postcode, 3977, with Cranbourne. In January 2018, Skye's Darnley Drive and Skye Valley residential developments were threatened by the Carrum Downs Bushfire, with a few houses damaged. Transport Public Transport Skye is serviced by one local bus service, the 760 operated by Ventura Bus Lines, which connects Skye to neighbouring suburbs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Carrum
The electoral district of Carrum is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It lies in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Melbourne, covering Bangholme, Victoria, Bangholme, Bonbeach, Victoria, Bonbeach, Carrum, Victoria, Carrum, Carrum Downs, Victoria, Carrum Downs, Lyndhurst, Victoria, Lyndhurst, Patterson Lakes, Victoria, Patterson Lakes, Sandhurst, Victoria, Sandhurst, Seaford, Victoria, Seaford and Skye, Victoria, Skye. The seat was created in 1976 and traditionally has had a working class character and has been safe for the Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Labor Party. However, since the 1990s the area has been gentrification, gentrifying and the seat was won by the Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division), Liberal Party against the trend at the 1996 Victorian state election, 1996 election. However, the seat was narrowly recovered by Labor due to the 1999 Victorian state election, Anti-Kennett swing in 1999 and the 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankston Line
The Frankston line is a commuter railway line in the city of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. Operated by Metro Trains Melbourne, it is the city's third-longest metropolitan railway line, at . The line runs from Flinders Street railway station, Flinders Street station in central Melbourne to Frankston railway station, Frankston station in the south-east, serving 28 stations via South Yarra railway station, South Yarra, Caulfield railway station, Caulfield, Moorabbin railway station, Moorabbin, and Mordialloc railway station, Mordialloc. The line continues to Stony Point railway station, Stony Point on the non-electrified Stony Point railway line, Stony Point line. The line operates for approximately 20 hours a day (from approximately 4:00 am to around 11:30 pm) with 24 hour service available on Friday and Saturday nights. During peak hour, headways of up to 5 to 10 minutes are operated with services every 10–20 minutes during off-peak hours. Trains on the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portsea, Victoria
Portsea is a seaside suburb on the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, approximately south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Mornington Peninsula local government area. Portsea recorded a population of 787 at the 2021 census. Portsea is located on the opposite side of Port Phillip Bay. The suburb is located on the bay itself, but the locality boundaries stretch as far west as Point Nepean and incorporate a section of Bass Strait coastline. Portsea is the westernmost town on the Mornington Peninsula, and lies adjacent to Sorrento. It has one of the highest average incomes in Australia. History Portsea is named after Portsea Island which is an island incorporated by Portsmouth, England. Portsmouth is where the first settlers to Australia set sail from. Portsea Post Office opened on 10 February 1877 and closed in 1987. In January 1948 the new St Mary's School for Deaf Children was opened at Delgany, Portsea led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chelsea, Victoria
Chelsea is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 30 km south-east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Kingston Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Chelsea recorded a population of 8,347 at the . Chelsea is located on Port Phillip and is the most important bayside suburban centre between Mordialloc, Victoria, Mordialloc and Frankston, Victoria, Frankston. Chelsea is very popular with beachgoers during summer. Also popular is Bicentennial Park, located about 1 km inland on the site of a former rubbish tip. It has recently been redeveloped with modern barbecue and play equipment, most notably the Mount Chelsea adventure playground. The Frankston railway line first cut through the Chelsea area in 1882 and Chelsea railway station, Melbourne, Chelsea station was opened during 1907, as was the Chelsea Post Office. These facilities served a modest slowly gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nepean Highway
Nepean Highway is a major highway in Victoria, running south from St Kilda Junction in inner-southern Melbourne to Portsea, tracing close to the eastern shore of Port Phillip for the majority of its length. It is the primary road route from central Melbourne through Melbourne's southern suburbs. This name covers a few consecutive roads and is not widely known to most drivers except for its central section, as the entire allocation is still best known by the names of its constituent parts: St Kilda Road, Brighton Road and Nepean Highway proper, and Point Nepean Road. This article will deal with the entire length of the corridor for the sake of completion. Route St Kilda Junction to Mornington Historically starting at the Melbourne CBD at Princes Bridge as St Kilda Road and heading south through the Melbourne Arts Precinct, today Nepean Highway is declared to commence at St Kilda Junction as St Kilda Road and heads in a southerly direction until it reaches the intersection wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dandenong Valley Highway
Dandenong Valley Highway is an urban highway stretching over 30 kilometres from Bayswater in Melbourne's eastern suburbs to Frankston in the south. This name covers many consecutive streets and is not widely known to most drivers, as the entire allocation is still best known as by the names of its constituent parts: Stud Road, Foster Street and Dandenong-Frankston Road. The traffic on the highway has been significant over the years with the worst bottlenecks at Burwood Highway, Ferntree Gully Road, Wellington Road, Princes Highway, and Thompsons Road, but since the opening of the EastLink, the traffic burden has significantly reduced along the highway with the north–south tollway, opening to traffic on 29 June 2008. Route Dandenong Valley Highway commences at the intersection of Stud Road and Burwood Highway in Wantirna South and heads south as Stud Road as a six-lane, dual-carriageway road (sharing a dedicated bus lane on-and-off) and continues south through Scoresby to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ringwood, Victoria
Ringwood is an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Maroondah A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agree ... Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Ringwood recorded a population of 19,144 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. Ringwood has many parks and reserves, most notably Ringwood Lake, an 8.5-hectare park is used for various recreational activities which includes a lake with bridge, sound shell, mining history display, playground, picnic shelters, barbecues and a bushland walking circuit. History Ringwood village emerged in the mid to late 19th century, following the 1850s land sales. Before this, Ringwood was used primarily for agriculture. The post o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EastLink (Melbourne)
EastLink is a tolled section of the M3 freeway linking a large area through the eastern and south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. EastLink is electronically tolled with no cash booths, using a system developed by SICE. The SICE Tolling System is similar to (and interoperable with) the '' e-TAG'' system used on the CityLink tollway. EastLink was opened to traffic on Sunday 29 June 2008 and in conjunction with the opening, a month-long toll-free period occurred before regular tolling commenced on 27 July 2008. The project was constructed by a joint venture of Australian construction companies Thiess Contractors and John Holland, with tolling system contracted to SICE, and mechanical and electrical work contracted to United Group Infrastructure. The final project cost was A$2.5 billion. Signs at the entrances and on the tollway direct to Ringwood, Dandenong, Frankston and Doncaster. History The road was originally shown in the 1969 Melbourne Transportation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosebud, Victoria
Rosebud is a seaside suburb on the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, approximately south of Melbourne's Melbourne City Centre, Central Business District, located within the Shire of Mornington Peninsula Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Rosebud recorded a population of 14,381 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. Rosebud is wedged between the lower slopes of Arthurs Seat, Victoria, Arthurs Seat, the shores of Port Phillip and the plains of Boneo. It is a popular tourist resort with families who appreciate its sandy beaches and shallow waters. History On 2 June 1855, the cargo vessel ''Rosebud (schooner), Rosebud'', owned by one of the colony's best known pastoralists Edward Hobson, was washed over the large sandbars and onto the beach. The burgeoning community made off with the cargo of damask and household goods, but the wreck remained for many years as the locals slowly stripped its hull to use in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mornington, Victoria
Mornington is a seaside suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia located on the Mornington Peninsula south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District. It is the most populous locality in the Shire of Mornington Peninsula local government area. Mornington had a population of 25,759 at the 2021 census. Mornington is a tourist destination renowned for its bay beaches and wineries, with a town centre that runs into the foreshore area and local beach. History Originally home to the Indigenous Boonwurrung people, the first European settlers arrived in the area in the 1840s for fishing, logging and agriculture. A 46-metre long pier was opened in 1858 and became the social and economic gateway to the Mornington Peninsula, connecting the surrounding areas with Melbourne. Originally known as Schnapper (or Snapper) Point, the town was renamed Mornington in 1864 after the second Earl of Mornington. The Courthouse was built in 1861 and the Post Office in 1863. The Grand Hotel w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mornington Peninsula Freeway
The Mornington Peninsula Freeway is a freeway in Melbourne Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ..., Victoria, Australia, that provides a link from south-eastern suburban Melbourne to the Mornington Peninsula. Whilst the entire freeway from Dingley Village to Rosebud is declared by VicRoads as the Mornington Peninsula Freeway, the section between EastLink in Carrum Downs and Moorooduc Highway in Moorooduc is locally and commonly known as Peninsula Link. The entire freeway corridor bears the designation M11. Route The Mornington Peninsula Freeway begins at the Dingley Bypass in Dingley Village and travels southbound towards Chelsea Heights and the EastLink/ Frankston Freeway interchange in Carrum Downs, running roughly parallel to the existing Boundary Road/Well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hastings, Victoria
Hastings (Parre Eurruc-Eurruc in Boonwurrung) is a town on the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Mornington Peninsula local government area. Hastings recorded a population of 10,369 at the 2021 census. Hastings is part of an urban enclave on Western Port comprising Hastings, Bittern, Crib Point, Tyabb, and Somerville. It is served by Hastings railway station on the Stony Point greater-metropolitan line. Hastings is situated on an inlet on Western Port, a major port and important environmental area. Hastings has multiple marinas and is home to many recreational boating activities. History Hastings is thought to be named after a fishing town in England or the British imperial administrator Warren Hastings. Previously known as King's Creek and Star Point, its post office opened on 4 February 1863. Settlement of the area dates from the 1840s, with fishing being the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
