Dobšiná Ice Cave
| UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
|---|---|
| Location | Rožňava District, Slovakia |
| Part of | Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst |
| Criteria | Natural: (viii) |
| Reference | 725ter-007 |
| Inscription | 1995 (19th Session) |
| Extensions | 2000, 2008 |
| Area | 600 ha (1,500 acres) |
| Buffer zone | 19,763 ha (48,840 acres) |
| Coordinates | 48°52′19″N 20°17′41″E / 48.87194°N 20.29472°E |
Dobšiná Ice Cave (Slovak: Dobšinská ľadová jaskyňa; Hungarian: 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.