| Frankston, Victoria |
Article Index for Frankston |
Website Links For Frankston |
Information AboutFrankston, Victoria |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT FRANKSTON, VICTORIA | |
| suburbs of melbourne | |
|
Frankston is a suburb in Melbourne , Victoria , Australia . It is the main town in the Local Government Area of the City Of Frankston . The 3199 postcode, which includes Frankston and the adjacent suburb of Frankston South , had 49,491 residents in 2005. It is a seaside suburb on Port Phillip Bay, 41 km southeast of Melbourne CBD . It is bordered to the north by the traditionally poorer Frankston North (also known as 'The Pines'), and to the south by the wealthier granite uplands of Mt. Eliza. Open, sandy beaches are found on the western side of Frankston. Kananook Creek flows through Frankston. As the northernmost city on the Mornington Peninsula , Frankston is sometimes known as The Gateway to the Peninsula. GEOGRAPHY The suburb of Frankston covers a wide geographic area compared to other Melbourne suburbs. Frankston is boundered on the west by Port Phillip Bay , on the north by a complex border featuring Overton Road and a number of golf courses, on the east by a freeway reservation, and on the south by Robinsons Road, Golf Links Road, Towerhill Road, Overport Road, Jasper Terrace and Warringa Road. Frankston is at the southern end of a stretch of beaches that run from Beaumaris south to Olivers Hill unbroken except by Paterson River and Mordialloc and Kananook Creek. At Olivers Hill (about 1km south of Frankston Pier) where Sweetwater creek meets Port Phillip Bay, the beaches give way to weathered bluffs of Sandstone and Siltstone , with the odd sandy cove at Canadian Bay and Daveys Bay . The central and northern areas of the suburb and generally flat, but the suburb rises gradually towards the east, and rises sharply at Olivers Hill in the south of the suburb into Frankston South and the granodiorite uplands of Mount Eliza . Some areas of native bushland still exist in place such as Sweetwater Creek Nature Reserve, though they have seen the more formal addition of paths and trails since the late 1980's. The Southern uplands are at the northern end of a uplift area in a Horst - Graben structure that extends down the Mornington Peninsula . The fault zones are inactive.
|
|
|