Svalbard International Seed Vault

The design for the Svalbard International Seed Vault, a “Living Fort Knox”, has recently been shared. Three million seed samples of the world's agricultural crops will be stored in the Arctic vault, due to be completed in 2008. The vault will be The seed vault will be built inside a mountain on Spitsbergen, an island one thousand kilometres north of mainland Norway.

• Doomsday Vault Design Unveiled from the BBC
• Svalbard Global Seed Vault from Wikipedia
• Arctic Seed Vault from the Global Crop Diversity Trust

Thank you to Stannous F and Aussiebob@UBC Botanical Garden Forums for suggesting the link!

Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 5:06 PM on February 28, 2007

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