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Olivers Hill, Victoria

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Coordinates:38°9′22″S145°6′25″E / 38.15611°S 145.10694°E /-38.15611; 145.10694

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Suburb of Frankston, Victoria, Australia

Suburb in Victoria, Australia

Olivers Hill

Suburb

Olivers Hill from the Frankston Boardwalk.

Olivers Hill

Coordinates:38°9′22″S145°6′25″E / 38.15611°S 145.10694°E /-38.15611; 145.10694

Country

City

City of Frankston

Government

• State electorate

Frankston

• Federal division

Dunkley

Postcode

3199

Suburbs around Olivers Hill
	Frankston
Port Phillip	Olivers Hill	Frankston South
	Mount Eliza

Olivers Hill is a locality located in theCity of Frankston,Victoria in Australia. It is the first major rise interrain along the easterncoastline ofPort Phillip, between Melbourne and theMornington Peninsula. It was named after localFrankston fisherman, James Oliver, who built the firstcottage atop the hill in the mid-19th century, from where he kept watch for fish in the waters below.^[1]

It straddles the suburbs ofFrankston andFrankston South, however its borders remain loosely defined.Real estate agents in Melbourne generally refer to any property along theNepean Highway 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 expensivereal estate in the entire City of Frankston. It is also considered to have one of the top ten residential views in Melbourne.^[2] In 2015, when the median house price in the suburb of Frankston was A$390,000,^[3] properties in the locality were selling for prices between A$3 and A$4 million.^[4]

The hill is easily accessible from the Frankston central business district (just over 1 km to the north) by car and on foot via theNepean Highway and from Cliff Road via Kars Street inFrankston South. It can also be reached bybus services 781, 784 and 785,^[5]^[6]^[7] departing from theYoung 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.