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Totally off topic, but still...: Many years ago, the New York Times did a lengthy piece about the Svalbard Seed Repository, referring to it as being located on "the island of Svalbard." It took repeated emails/corrections/tweets by me before they finally corrected the story and noted "Svalbard is not an island, it is an archipelago." All subsequent references in the Times have got it right.


Here is the correction, published on April 22, 2010: https://archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9...


Here is the (corrected) original article — with correction appended — published on April 15, 2010: https://archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9...




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