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Isfjorden (Svalbard and Jan Mayen)
Puffin
Common Eider
Common Eider
Longyearbyen
Svalbard Church
Longyearbyen, Svalbard
Snow bunting
Platåfjellet-Tverrdalen
Svalbard reindeer
Snow bunting
Snow bunting
Little auk
Little auk
Svalbard reindeer
Svalbard reindeer
Longyearbyen River, Vei 100
Snow bunting
Barnacle goose
Barnacle goose
Snow bunting
Common Eider
North Pole Expedition Museum
Black Guillemot
Svalbard Global Seed Vault (foggy weather)
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure seed bank on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. Conservationist Cary Fowler, in association with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, started the vault to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds that are duplicate samples, or "spare" copies, of seeds held in gene banks worldwide. The seed vault is an attempt to ensure against the loss of seeds in other genebanks during large-scale regional or global crises. The seed vault is managed under terms spelled out in a tripartite agreement among the Norwegian government, the Crop Trust, and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center.
Fulmar
Fulmar
Fulmar
Fulmar
Forlandsundet & Isfjorden (Svalbard and Jan Mayen)
Whales
Puffin
Whale
Fulmar
Fulmar
Fulmar
Fulmar
Fulmar
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