Welcome Stranger

Not to be confused with Welcome Nugget.
This article is about a gold nugget discovered in Australia. For other uses, see Welcome Stranger (disambiguation).

A wood engraving of the Welcome Stranger published in The Illustrated Australian News for Home Reader on 1 March 1869. The scale bar across the bottom represents 12 inches (30 cm).[1]

The Welcome Stranger is an alluvial gold nugget which is the biggest ever discovered, and was unearthed by Cornish miners John Deason and Richard Oates on 5 February 1869 in Moliagul, 9 miles north-west of Dunolly in Victoria, Australia.[2]

  1. ^ "The "Welcome Stranger" (picture)". State Library of Victoria search. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  2. ^ O'Shea, Johnny (5 February 2019). "Welcome Stranger: World's Largest Gold Nugget Remembered". BBC News. Retrieved 14 November 2023.