The so-called doomsday seed vault located underground on a remote island in
the Arctic Ocean has gained a neighbor, and the new vault, opened March 27,
will act as a digital archive for the world's data.

The underground Svalbard Global Seed Vault was built in 2008, about 620
miles (1,000 kilometers) from the North Pole. The frozen-storage facility
houses the world's most important crop seeds, acting as a backup for gene
banks around the world and protecting the valuable genetic material from
natural disasters, equipment malfunctions, war and other problems,
according to Cary Fowler, a scientist, conservationist and biodiversity
advocate who first envisioned the vault . Thus, the moniker "doomsday
vault."


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