Geelong
a city of Victoria, Australia; on Corio Bay, 45 miles S. W. of Melbourne. It is well laid out, and has some handsome buildings. The gold discoveries in 1851 brought it prosperity. GEELVINK BAY GELA Limestone and a kind of marble are Ammonite fire-god (II Kings xxiii: 10; found in the neighborhood. The industries are the manufacture of woolen cloths and paper, meat preserving, tanning, rope making, fishing, etc. It has two parks, botanical garden, government buildings, a town hall, a new postoffice (1889), an excellent hospital, a chamber of commerce, mechanics' institute, etc.
Corio Bay is a favorite bathing resort; and on the E. boundary of the town are extensive limestone quarries. Pop., including suburbs (1918), 34,080. GEELVINK BAY (gālvink), an arm of the Pacific, penetrating 125 miles S. miles S. into the W. arm of New Guinea. Its entrance, about 155 miles wide, is protected by several islands; its shores are well wooded, flat and fertile, but unhealthy.
The bay is separated by a narrow mus from the Alfura Sea on the S., and by a still narrower isthmus from Mc- Clure Gulf on the W.
GEESTEMÜNDE (gas'te-mün-de), a seaport of Prussia, at the confluence of the Geeste with the Weser; immediately S. E. of Bremerhaven. It owes its importance to the docks and wharves constructed in 1857-1863. It has also a school of navigation; imports petroleum, tobacco, rice, coffee, timber, and corn; and carries on various industries connected with shipping. GEFLE (yāf'lā), chief town of the Swedish län of Gefleborg; on the Gulf of Bothnia, 71 miles N. by W. of Upsala .
The port for Dalecarlia, Gefle ranks third among the commercial towns of Sweden, II Chron. xxxiii: 6), or actually burnt them in the fire (II Chron. xxviii: 3).
Tophet was in it (II Kings xxiii: 10), and a prophetic passage mentions the size and fierceness of the fires there burning for the "King" [Molech means king] (Isaiah xxx: 33). Josiah put an end to these cruel practices, and defiled the It was place (II Kings xxiii: 10). It was doomed afterward to become an overcrowded cemetery (Jer. vii: 32). When the Jews outgrew all love of human sacrifice, they regarded the place with horror, the rabbis deeming it the gate of hell. The valley, which the Arabs call Gehennam, is thoroughly known. It is narrow and deep, with rugged limestone cliffs excavated for tombs, and the mountain sides overtopping all.
For the Gehenna of Scripture, see HELL.