MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Argentinian missing biologist body found in Antarctica

Authorities said on Tuesday that they have found the body of one of two Argentines missing for more than a month in Antarctica after their snowmobile plunged into a deep ice crevasse.

The remains of biologist Augusto Thibaud were found buried under snow in a gash in the Collins glacier on an island close to the Antarctic peninsula where the accident occurred on September 17.

Sergio Policastro, a spokesperson for the Antarctic command centre in Buenos Aires, said the discovery was made 60m down in the crevasse by army experts minutely probing the underground chamber.

He said the snowmobile the men were riding had also been found along with the body nearby. But Policastro said the second man identified as Navy official Teofilo Gonzalez remained missing.

The accident occurred on one of a series of snow- and ice-shrouded islands, named 25 de Mayo, located near the Antarctic Peninsula where the Argentines, Chileans and Uruguayans all have bases.