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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secureseedbank located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near the town of Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbardarchipelago.[1] The facility preserves a wide variety of plant seeds in an underground cavern. The seeds are duplicate samples, or "spare" copies, of seeds held in genebanks worldwide. The seed vault will provide insurance against the loss of seeds in genebanks, as well as a refuge for seeds in the case of large scale regional or global crises. The island of Spitsbergen is about 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) from the North Pole.
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