They were the first to visit the vault after it opened on March 27th, The Verge reports. L LONDON Buried almost 1,000 feet below a snow-covered mountain, on an arctic island midway between Norway and the North Pole, a Norwegian company is planning to create what it says will be a. The Global OREO Vault contains: OREO packs wrapped in protective mylar, keeping cookies safe from temps of -80° to 300☏. Seeds are sealed off in three-ply foil packages and then placed into plastic tote containers on metal shelving racks. In fact, it’s already housing historical documents from the Brazilian, Mexican, and Norwegian governments. While nobody has access to anyone else’s seeds from the seed vault, the database of samples as well s depositors is maintained by NordGen. The Global Music Vault is spearheaded by Oslo-based Elire Management Group, which claims the building should last for at least 1,000 years buried beneath 1,000-feet of snow on the Svalbard archipelago. Think of it like a safe deposit box in a bank, but in this case, the Government of Norway owns the facility and the depositing genebanks own the seeds they send. A 'Doomsday vault' for recorded music is being constructed on an arctic island between the North Pole and Norway. The Global Seed Vault at Svalbard’s arctic archipelago is practically impenetrable and, unless you have actual business there, don’t expect to be allowed inside. An apt description had Noah’s Ark been built to also withstand asteroid impacts and nuclear bombs. Inside, the vault seed samples are copies of samples stored in the depositing genebanks. It has been called ‘the Noah’s Ark of plant diversity’. Read more for two videos and additional information. The entrance to the vault is on a mountain called Spitsbergen, chosen for a number of factors including its perpetually frozen temperatures.

It will be located on the remote, frigid island cluster of Svalbard, well north of Norways mainland, 621 miles (1,000 km) into the Arctic Ocean. Recently, the area has been experiencing a heat wave, which saw peak temperatures of 71.7° F (averages 48☏ in July) in Longyearbyen, a small town on the northern Norwegian island of Svalbard, setting a new record. Norway revealed the design of the vault in February 2007. It’s managed by the Norwegian government, the Crop Trust, and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen). The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, nicknamed the Doomsday Vault, is essentially a secure seed bank on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault also known as the 'Doomsday Bunker'. Doomsday seed vault town ‘warming quicker than any other on Earth’ Temperatures have risen three times faster than the global average putting seeds at risk Subscribe to Independent Premium to.

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