Skye is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 38 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Frankston. At the 2011 census, Skye had a population of 7,484.
Skye Post Office opened on 1 June 1889 and closed in 1895. In 1964 Lyndhurst South office (open since 1902) was renamed Skye. This office closed in 1972.
Prior to 15 December 1994, Skye was part of the City of Cranbourne formerly the Shire of Cranbourne. It still shares the postcode, 3977, with Cranbourne.
The suburb has one school, Skye Primary School. The suburb has a number of newer housing developments (many which have been developed since 2005).
Southern Lights Church serves the Skye region.
Skye enjoys a large area of land to the east of the suburb which is outside the main growth area and is semi-rural. It forms a green wedge between Skye and Cranbourne West, which is in the neighboring municipality of the City of Casey.
Skye was ranked as the least liveable suburb in Melbourne due to crime, distance from the CBD, lack of public transport and lack of public parks. However others have stated Skye as a wonderful place for raising children due to its semi-rural location, proximity to beaches and to Lyndhurst Primary School.
Skye or the Isle of Skye (/skaɪ/; Scottish Gaelic: An t-Eilean Sgitheanach or Eilean a' Cheò) is the largest and most northerly major island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. The island's peninsulas radiate from a mountainous centre dominated by the Cuillins, the rocky slopes of which provide some of the most dramatic mountain scenery in the country. Although it has been suggested that the Gaelic Sgitheanach describes a winged shape there is no definitive agreement as to the name's origins.
The island has been occupied since the Mesolithic period and its history includes a time of Norse rule and a long period of domination by Clan MacLeod and Clan Donald. The 18th-century Jacobite risings led to the breaking up of the clan system and subsequent Clearances that replaced entire communities with sheep farms, some of which also involved forced emigrations to distant lands. Resident numbers declined from over 20,000 in the early 19th century to just under 9,000 by the closing decade of the 20th century. Skye's population increased by 4 per cent between 1991 and 2001. About a third of the residents were Gaelic speakers in 2001, and although their numbers are in decline this aspect of island culture remains important.
Skye is the largest island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
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Daisy Louise Johnson, also known as Quake and Skye, is a fictional superheroine appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Gabriele Dell'Otto, the character first appeared in Secret War #2 (July 2004). The daughter of the supervillain Mister Hyde, she is a secret agent of the intelligence organization S.H.I.E.L.D. with the power to generate earthquakes. In the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Chloe Bennet portrays the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of the character, reimagining her as an Inhuman originally known as Skye. Aspects of this interpretation were later integrated back into the comics.
A member of the international espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D., she was created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Gabriele Dell'Otto, and first appeared in Secret War #2 (July 2004). During Secret Invasion, she joins Nick Fury's Secret Warriors under the codename Quake.
Her look was modeled after actress Angelina Jolie in the film Hackers.