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6 Decades Later, Remains of Antarctic Scientists Found

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More than six decades after a young British researcher vanished into an Antarctic crevasse, his remains have been found. A receding glacier led to the discovery of Dennis « Tink ».
More than six decades after a young British researcher vanished into an Antarctic crevasse, his remains have been found. A receding glacier led to the discovery of Dennis « Tink » Bell, who was 25 when he died in 1959, reports CBS News. Bell had been working as a meteorologist with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, now known as the British Antarctic Survey, on July 26 of that year while out on an expedition to a glacier on Admiralty Bay on King George Island.

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