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Encyclopedia Britannica



GELLIVARA [GELLIVARE]

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 559 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GELLIVARA [GELLIVARE] , a mining town of Sweden in the
district
  (ldn) of Norrbotten, 815 m. N. by E. of Stockholm by rail. It lies in the well-nigh uninhabited region of Swedish
Lapland
 , 43 M. N. of the Arctic Circle. It owes its importance to the iron mines in the
mountain
  Malmberget 4? M. to the north, rising to 2024 ft. above sea-level (83o ft. above Gellivara town). During the dark winter months
work
  proceeds by the aid of electric light. In 1864 the mines were acquired by an
English
  company, but abandoned in 1867. In 1884 another
English
  company took them up and completed a provisional railway from Malmberget to
Lulea
  at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia (127 M. S.S.E.), besides executing a considerable portion of the preliminary works for the continuation of the line on the
Norwegian
  side from Ofoten Fjord upwards (see NARVIK). But this company, after extracting some 150,000 tons of ore in 1888-1889, went igto liquidation in the latter year. Two years later the mines passed into the hands of a Swedish company, and the railway was acquired by the Swedish 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 miles S.W. rises the hill Gellivara Dundret (2700 ft.), from which the sun is visible at midnight from June 5 to July 11. The
population
  of the parish (about 65oo sq. m.) in 19oo was 11,745; the greater
part
  of the
population
  being congregated at the town of Gellivara and at Malmberget.


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