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Located on a mountainside on Spitsbergen, an island in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, the vault houses 'spare ...

Located on a mountainside on Spitsbergen, an island in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, the vault houses 'spare ...

The "Apocalypse Vault', the global seed bank located on the island of Spitsbergen in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, ...

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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, often referred to as the “doomsday” vault, has recently received over 14,000 new seed samples ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway will receive 14,022 new seed samples on Tuesday. Built in 2008, the vault safeguards ...