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Montevideo, October 19th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

Tag: Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS)

  • Tuesday, August 12th 2025 - 06:40 UTC

    Antarctic researcher remains, working for Falklands’ Dependency, 66 years ago, found in receding glacier

    Dennis Bell (left) with his fellow colleagues and the dogs that helped them to work in Antarctica. Midwinter 1959 at Admiralty Bay Base. Credit: unknown.

    The remains of an Antarctic researcher have been discovered by a Polish team among rocks exposed by a receding glacier in Antarctica. They are identified by DNA as those of Dennis ‘Tink’ Bell, a 25 year-old meteorologist who was working for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), the predecessor of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). He died in a crevasse on a glacier at Admiralty Bay on King George Island, situated off the Antarctic Peninsula on 26 July 1959. His body was never recovered.