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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. Prior to the coming of Europeans, the Frankston area was populated by Indigenous Australians known as the Kulin people. Specifically, inhabitants in the Frankston area were from the Bunurong language group, of the Mayone-bulluk clan. Europeans first set foot in Frankston as early as January 30, 1803, some thirty-two years before the founding of Melbourne. A plaque near the mouth of the Kananook Creek marks the location of where Captain Charles Grimes and his party went ashore searching for freshwater, and met with about thirty of the local inhabitants. Some pastoral settlement occurred in the late 1840s and early 1850s with the first land sales occurring in 1854. The Ballam Park Homestead, located in the east of the suburb, dates from this time. Fishing and service industries sprung-up to assist pastoral and farming communities developing on the Mornington Peninsula. The origin of Frankston's name has been subject to some conjecture. Local mythology suggests that the town was named for a publican called Frank Stone who ran a hotel at the corner of the then Point Nepean Road (now the Nepean Highway) with the Hastings Road (now Davey Street). There is no evidence that such a person existed. Two more credible possibilities are that the town was named for Francis (Frank) Liardet, a prominent early settler, or after Charles Franks, an early settler of Melbourne who was killed by Aborigines.