Olivers Hill, Victoria
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Olivers Hill is a locality located in the
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,
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in Australia. It is the first major rise in
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along the eastern
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of
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, between Melbourne and the
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. It was named after local Frankston
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, James Oliver, who built the first
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atop the hill in the mid-19th century, from where he kept watch for fish in the waters below.Jones, Michael. ''Frankston: Resort to City''. Allen & Unwin: Sydney. 1989. It straddles the suburbs of Frankston and Frankston South, however its borders remain loosely defined.
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s in Melbourne generally refer to any property along the
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strip from the Frankston Waterfront in the north, to Humphries Road in the South, as being on Olivers Hill. Olivers Hill is one of the most sought after residential locations in Frankston, and has the most expensive real estate in the entire City of Frankston. It is also considered to have one of the top ten residential views in Melbourne. In 2015, when the median house price in the suburb of Frankston was A$390,000,Frankston, Victoria
Realestate.com.au. REA Group Ltd. Retrieved 19 August 2015
properties in the locality were selling for prices between A$3 and A$4 million.Lim, Ming Haw (6 May 2015).
Clifftop beauty sells for top price
. ''Herald Sun''. Retrieved 19 August 2015
The hill is easily accessible from the Frankston central business district (just over 1 km to the north) by car and on foot via the
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and from Cliff Road via Kars Street in Frankston South. It can also be reached by
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s 781, 784 and 785, departing from the Young Street public transport terminus in the Frankston CBD. Olivers Hill is also well known among Melbourne cyclists as being the halfway or turn around point for the 85 km ride from St Kilda along Beach Road, a famous Australian cycling route.


Gallery

File:Houses on Olivers Hill, Frankston (September 2015).jpg, Houses on Olivers Hill File:Frankston Olivers Hill 2008.JPG, Nepean Highway on Olivers Hill File:Port Phillip (Victoria) seen from Frankston.jpg, View of Port Phillip from a lookout on Olivers Hill File:Frankston from Olivers Hill.jpg File:Nepean Highway on Olivers Hill, Frankston (September 2015).jpg File:View of Olivers Hill, Frankston - panoramio.jpg File:Frankston CBD from Olivers Hill (September 2015).jpg


See also

* Frankston and Frankston South⁣-the suburbs, of which Olivers Hill is a locality. *
City of Frankston The City of Frankston (officially known as Frankston City Council'')'' is a Local government areas of Victoria, local government area (LGA) in Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia in the southern suburbs of Melbourne. It has an area of 130 squ ...
– the local government area of which Olivers Hill is a part. *
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– notable people from the City of Frankston (including Olivers Hill).


References

{{City of Frankston suburbs Frankston, Victoria