Svalbard Global Seed Vault
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🇸🇯 Svalbard and Jan Mayen
A tunnel driven into permafrost on an Arctic island holds a spare copy of the crops the world eats, in case a war or a flood takes the original.
1.4MsamplesSeed samples stored
134depositorsDepositing genebanks
6,539speciesSpecies represented