Norway’s doomsday vault
Norway is planning to build a vault in a mountain near the north pole that will store a vast seed bank of all known varieties of the world’s crops, on the off chance that we have a nuclear war, radical climate change or meteor strike. The vault will be in the permafrost (which will keep the seeds viable even with global warming) of a sandstone mountain on the island of Spitsbergen, 625 miles from the North Pole, behind 3.25 ft. thick concrete, two airlocks and blast-proof doors. The $3 million facility will hold around 2 million seeds. So remember, when the smoke clears the seeds are in Spitsbergen.
‘Doomsday vault’ to hold world’s seeds, PhysOrg.com