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GELLIVARA [GELLIVARE]

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 559 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GELLIVARA [GELLIVARE]  , a
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mining
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town of Sweden in the
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district (ldn) of Norrbotten, 815 m . N. by E. of
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Stockholm by
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rail . It lies in the well-nigh uninhabited region of
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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
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work proceeds by the aid of electric
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light . In 1864 the mines were acquired by an
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English
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company, but abandoned in 1867 . In 1884 another English company took them up and completed a provisional railway from Malmberget to
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Lulea at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia (127 M . S.S.E.), besides executing a considerable portion of the preliminary
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works for the continuation of the
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line on the
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Norwegian side from Ofoten Fjord upwards (see
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NARVIK) . But this company, after extracting some 150,000 tons of ore in 1888-1889, went igto liquidation in the latter
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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
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June 5 to
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July 11 . The population of the parish (about 65oo sq. m.) in 19oo was 11,745; the greater
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part of the population being congregated at the town of Gellivara and at Malmberget .

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