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 .