Top 10 places forbidden for visits

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# Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Svalbard Global Seed Vault, one of the 'top 10 places forbidden for visits' by China.org.cn.

Svalbard Global Seed Vault [File photo]



About 1,300 kilometers from the North Pole, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure seed bank on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. This is the place where the Norwegian government preserves a wide variety of plant seeds forming duplicate samples or "spare" copies of seeds held in gene banks worldwide.Of course, It is not open to the public.

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