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Snow-covered entrance of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault built into a mountainside with a metal bridge leading to a heavy door, surrounded by snowy Arctic landscape under a partly cloudy sky at sunset.

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago.[5] The Seed Vault provides long-term storage for duplicates of seeds from around the...

A blue and yellow football field surrounded by a chain-link fence, set on a barren, dirt ground with a small blue building on the left side and a bright, clear sky overhead.

Northern Most Football Field

The northern most football field in the Artic Circle belongs to Barrow High School in Alaska.

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