The interior of the Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen
The interior of the Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen is seen in this handout photo taken June 10, 2007. The vault in a mountainside cavern on Spitsbergen island around 1,000 km (600 miles) from the North Pole is being prepared to store the world's crop seeds in case of disaster. Starting with 200,000 samples when it opens in February, the vault will have the capacity for around 4.5 million bar-coded seed samples in all. Photo taken June 10, 2007. REUTERS/ Mari Tefre/Global Crop Diversity Trust/Handout. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS..