title: Mediterranean Cave
text: # Mediterranean Cave
  
  Mediterranean Cave is a cave in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.
  
  ## Location
  
  East side of The Rock behind oil tanks (circa 1940).
  
  ## History
  
  A cave with this name is recorded by Kenyon as having been occupied in 1779-1783 during the Great Siege of Gibraltar. It is not known which cave that was. The present Mediterranean Cave was discovered about 1900. It became an Admiralty Distillery in 1942.
  
  