The bones of a British explorer who went missing more than six decades ago after an accident in Antarctica have been found, along with hundreds of personal effects.

The remains were discovered by a Polish Arctic expedition among rocks exposed by a melting glacier in January, the British Antarctic Survey announced Monday .

The bones were identified as belonging to Dennis Bell, a meteorologist who died at the age of 25 while working for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), the predecessor to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

Bell was killed after falling into a crevasse on a glacier at Admiralty Bay on King George Island off the Antarctic Peninsula on July 26, 1959, but his body was never recovered.

His bones were discovered with more than 200 items, including the remains

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