Svalbard Global Seed Vault or known as Doomsday vault is not something fictional it is for real. It is a vault which holds samples of world's most important seeds. The main objective of this vault is to provide mankind with food source in the case of global catastrophic event.
Located at one of the artic mountains some 1000km from the North Pole it is one of its kind in the world. The vault which made of three chambers can hold up to 4.5 millions batches of seeds from all over the world.
It is build at 130 metres above current sea level. It is high enough that it would not be flooded even if Greenlan and Antartic ice sheets melt.
The vault is manage by Norwegian government, the Global Crop Diversity Trust and the Nordic Gene Bank.
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