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Dobšinská Ice Cave

The 65th longest cave in the world

1.5km · Length

Dobšiná Ice Cave (Slovak: Dobšinská ľadová jaskyňa, Dobsinai-jégbarlang) is an ice cave in Slovakia, near the mining town of Dobšiná in the Slovak Paradise. Since 2000 it has been included on the UNESCO World Heritage list as a part of the Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst site, because of its unique cave formations and its natural beauty. Famous visitors to the ice cave have been Prince August von Sachsen Gotha and his wife (1872), Ferdinand de Lesseps (constructor of the Suez Channel) and a party of French writers (1884), Bulgarian Czar Ferdinand I (1890), and the polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen (1900). With the entrance at 920 m a.s.l, it is one of the lowest ice caves in the world.

Cave data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

More caves in Slovakia

  1. Baradla cave25.5 km
  2. Belianska Cave3.8 km
  3. Krásnohorská Cave1.6 km
  4. Hrušovská jaskyňa0.8 km
  5. Važecká Cave0.5 km

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