Svalbard Seed Vault

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Place.png Svalbard Seed Vault
(Seed bank, World War preparation?)
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Facility in remote Norwegian Arctic archipelago; often mentioned to be necessary as back-up to restart human civilization.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, often termed the "doomsday vault", is a back-up facility for the world's crop diversity, which also is a storage location for books, archives and documents on long-lasting film,[1] on the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago.

Other facilities?

Articles mentioning it as "doomsday" vault are numerous,[2] and the facility was termed like this from the beginning,[3][4][5] but possibly not as regularly as lately.[6] If this facility is mainly meant to be back-up after nuclear war or impact, it is likely not the only professionally built and financially supported,[7] just the one that gets all media exposure.

A smaller, known project is India's in the Himalayas.[8]


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