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GELLIVARA [GELLIVARE]

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GELLIVARA [GELLIVARE] , a See also:mining See also:town of See also:Sweden in the See also:district (ldn) of Norrbotten, 815 m. N. by E. of See also:Stockholm by See also:rail. It lies in the well-nigh uninhabited region of See also:Swedish See also:Lapland, 43 M. N. of the See also:Arctic Circle. It owes its importance to the See also:iron mines in the See also:mountain Malmberget 4? M. to the See also:north, rising to 2024 ft. above See also:sea-level (83o ft. above Gellivara town). During the dark See also:winter months See also:work proceeds by the aid of electric See also:light. In 1864 the mines were acquired by an See also:English See also:company, but abandoned in 1867. In 1884 another English company took them up and completed a provisional railway from Malmberget to See also:Lulea at the See also:head of the Gulf of See also:Bothnia (127 M. S.S.E.), besides executing a considerable portion of the preliminary See also:works for the continuation of the See also:line on the See also:Norwegian See also:side from Ofoten See also:Fjord upwards (see See also:NARVIK). But this company, after extracting some 150,000 tons of ore in 1888-1889, went igto See also:liquidation in the latter See also:year. Two years later the mines passed into the hands of a Swedish company, and the railway was acquired by the Swedish See also:Government.

The output of ore was insignificant until 1892, when it stood at 178,000 tons; but in 1902 it amounted to 1,074,000 tons. Three See also:

miles S.W. rises the See also:hill Gellivara Dundret (2700 ft.), from which the See also:sun is visible at midnight from See also:June 5 to See also:July 11. The See also:population of the See also:parish (about 65oo sq. m.) in 19oo was 11,745; the greater See also:part of the population being congregated at the town of Gellivara and at Malmberget.

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