Visit the Arctic vault holding back-ups of great works

Visit the Arctic vault holding back-ups of great works 24 minutes ago Share Save Adrienne Murray Technology Reporter Reporting from Longyearbyen, Norway Share Save Getty Images Norway's Longyearbyen is the world's most northernmost town High above the Arctic Circle, the archipelago of Svalbard lies halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. Frozen, mountainous, and remote, it's home to hundreds of polar bears and a couple of sparse settlements. One of those is Longyearbyen, the world's northernmost town, and just outside the settlement, in a decommissioned coal mine, is The Arctic World Archive (AWA) - an underground vault for data. Customers pay to have their data stored on film and kept in the vault, for potentially hundreds of years. "This is a place to make sure that information survives technology obsolescence, time and ageing. That's our mission," says founder Rune Bjerkestrand, leading the way inside. Switching on head-torches we descended a dark passageway and follo ... Read full article.