Welcome to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault Way up north, in the permafrost, 1300 kilometers beyond the Arctic Circle, is the world's largest secure seed storage, opened The vault was created by the government of Norway and serves as a backup of a backup Many countries have seed repositories or "genebanks" that exist to provide a The seed bank is located in a tunnel under a mountain in the village of Longyearbyen, 800 miles from the North Pole It's known as likely the northernmost city on
The Organisation Svalbard Global Seed Vault
