GELLIVARA [GELLIVARE], a mining town of Sweden in the district (lan) 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 41 m. to the north, rising to 2,024 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 opened but abandoned in 1867. They were reopened in 1884 and a provisional railway built from Malmberget to Lulea at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia (127 m. S.S.E.) . In 1891 the Swedish Government bought the railway. The output of ore was insignificant until 1892, but since then it has increased considerably.