{"id":313208,"date":"2025-08-12T05:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/313208\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T05:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:23:10","slug":"des-scientifiques-decouvrent-les-restes-dun-chercheur-britannique-disparu-il-y-a-66-ans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/313208\/","title":{"rendered":"Des scientifiques d\u00e9couvrent les restes d\u2019un chercheur britannique disparu il y a 66 ans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Le myst\u00e8re entourant la <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/disparition\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-ultramarine c-link\" rel=\"noopener\">disparition<\/a> de Dennis Bell, m\u00e9t\u00e9orologue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/anglais\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-ultramarine c-link\" rel=\"noopener\">britannique<\/a> de 25 ans disparu en <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/antarctique\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-ultramarine c-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Antarctique<\/a> en\u00a01959, vient d\u2019\u00eatre lev\u00e9. Ses restes, longtemps prisonniers des glaces, ont \u00e9t\u00e9 retrouv\u00e9s en d\u00e9but d\u2019ann\u00e9e sur l\u2019\u00eele du Roi-George, dans l\u2019archipel des Shetland du Sud, a annonc\u00e9 lundi le British Antarctic Survey (BAS).<\/p>\n<p>Le 26 juillet\u00a01959, en plein hiver austral, Dennis Bell participait \u00e0 une <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/scientifiques\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-ultramarine c-link\" rel=\"noopener\">mission scientifique<\/a> depuis la base d\u2019Admiralty Bay. Accompagn\u00e9 de trois coll\u00e8gues et d\u2019une meute de chiens de tra\u00eeneau, il menait des relev\u00e9s m\u00e9t\u00e9orologiques sur un glacier. Selon le r\u00e9cit de ses compagnons, il quitta un instant ses skis pour aider les chiens \u00e0 progresser, avant de chuter dans une crevasse.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Retrouv\u00e9 gr\u00e2ce au r\u00e9chauffement climatique<\/p>\n<p>Apr\u00e8s plus de six d\u00e9cennies, le <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/rechauffement-climatique\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-ultramarine c-link\" rel=\"noopener\">r\u00e9chauffement climatique<\/a> et le recul des glaces ont fini par r\u00e9v\u00e9ler son <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/corps\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-ultramarine c-link\" rel=\"noopener\">corps<\/a>. C\u2019est une \u00e9quipe de scientifiques polonais, bas\u00e9e sur l\u2019\u00eele du Roi-George, qui a d\u00e9couvert en janvier ses restes, accompagn\u00e9s d\u2019objets personnels. Des analyses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/adn\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-ultramarine c-link\" rel=\"noopener\">ADN<\/a>, compar\u00e9es \u00e0 des \u00e9chantillons pr\u00e9lev\u00e9s sur son fr\u00e8re et sa s\u0153ur, ont confirm\u00e9 son identit\u00e9. \u00ab\u00a0Quand ma s\u0153ur Valerie et moi avons \u00e9t\u00e9 inform\u00e9s que notre fr\u00e8re avait \u00e9t\u00e9 retrouv\u00e9, nous \u00e9tions sous le choc\u00a0\u00bb, a t\u00e9moign\u00e9 David Bell, cit\u00e9 dans le communiqu\u00e9 du BAS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/antarctique\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"c-link c-btn c-btn--primary\" rel=\"noopener\">Notre dossier sur l&rsquo;Antarctique<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pour Jane Francis, directrice du BAS, Dennis Bell fait partie de ces pionniers qui ont \u00ab\u00a0contribu\u00e9 aux d\u00e9buts de l\u2019exploration et des recherches sur l\u2019Antarctique, dans des conditions incroyablement dures\u00a0\u00bb. Cette d\u00e9couverte, souligne-t-elle, \u00ab\u00a0met fin \u00e0 un myst\u00e8re vieux de plusieurs d\u00e9cennies et nous rappelle les parcours humains attach\u00e9s \u00e0 l\u2019histoire de la recherche en Antarctique\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Le myst\u00e8re entourant la disparition de Dennis Bell, m\u00e9t\u00e9orologue britannique de 25 ans disparu en Antarctique en\u00a01959, vient&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[47,11,846,5764,7079,6725,1011,27,14,74,12,52,5140,4513,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-313208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"tag-actualite","9":"tag-actualites","10":"tag-adn","11":"tag-antarctique","12":"tag-chercheurs","13":"tag-corps","14":"tag-fr","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-international","17":"tag-monde","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-planete","20":"tag-rechauffement-climatique","21":"tag-scientifiques","22":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@fr\/115014127035432281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}