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The last hope for the world’s food is this seed vault at a remote island in Norway.
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A look into the most special place on earth
The last hope for the world’s food is this seed vault at a remote island in Norway.
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1,300 km from the North Pole is a futuristic looking building wedged 120 meters in a sandstone mountain. With dual blast-proof doors, motion sensors, 2 airlocks, and walls of steel-reinforced concrete 1 meter thick you will be forgiven if you think it is a building right out of a spy movie.
This building is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, purportedly holding the last hope of humanity. Yes you read that right, maybe thats why its also come to be called The Doomsday Vault. It is a secure seed bank on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen.
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