Leading dignitaries have attended the official opening of a 'doomsday' seed vault built 130m (426ft) inside a mountain on a remote Arctic island.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jen Stoltenberg and Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai placed the first seeds in the depository during the ceremony.
The vault, designed to withstand all natural and human disaster, will house samples of all known food crops.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault took 12 months and cost £5m to construct.more
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