Olivers Hill, Victoria

Olivers Hill is a locality located in the City of Frankston, Victoria in Australia. It is the first major rise in terrain along the eastern coastline of Port Phillip, between Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula. It was named after local Frankston fisherman, James Oliver, who built the first cottage atop the hill in the mid-19th century, from where he kept watch for fish in the waters below.^[1]

Olivers Hill is one of the most sought after residential locations in the City of Frankston. Many properties here boast uninterrupted views across Port Phillip to the city of Melbourne, and some also overlook the Frankston Beach and the suburbs waterfront precinct. According to The Age newspaper, property on Olivers Hill has been sold for in excess of A$2 million, when the 2005 median price for a house in Frankston was only A$228,000.^[2]

It straddles the suburbs of Frankston and Frankston South, however its borders remain loosely defined. Real estate agents commonly refer to any property along the Nepean Highway strip from the Frankston Waterfront in the north, to Humphries Road in the South, as being on Olivers Hill.

Olivers Hill is easily accessible from the Frankston CBD (just over 1 km to the north) via the Nepean Highway and from Cliff Road via Kars Street in Frankston South. It can also be reached by bus services (numbers 781 , 784 and 785 ) departing from the Young Street public transport terminus in the Frankston CBD.

Olivers Hill is also well known among Melbourne cyclicts as being the halfway or turn around point for the 85 km ride from St Kilda along Beach Road, a famous Australian cycling route.

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