The global collection of what is stored in a vault in Svalbard on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen?
Svalbard Global Seed Vault institutions. Svalbard Global Seed Vault ranked at No. 6 on "Time"s Best Inventions of 2008. It was awarded the Norwegian Lighting Prize for 2009. Each seed sample consists of approximately 500 seeds sealed in an airtight aluminum bag. The facility has a storage capacity of 4.5 million seed samples. Svalbard Global Seed Vault The Svalbard Global Seed Vault () is a secure seed bank on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago, about from the North Pole. Conservationist Cary Fowler, in association with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), started the vault
Svalbard in fiction book of 1978. "Bear Island" is a 1971 thriller novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean about a movie crew who travels to Svalbard. When the group arrives in Svalbard, members of the crew start dying under unusual circumstances. The Norwegian crime writer and glaciologist Monica Kristensen has written a novel set in Svalbard entitled "Operation Fritham". The novel tells the story of a small group of World War II veterans who meet in Svalbard to commemorate Operation Fritham, a 1942 Norwegian military operation which aimed at securing the rich coal mines on Spitsbergen and denying their use to Nazi Germany.