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The three men were properly buried 1.8 metres under the ice, all of their bodies where located in Beech Island. The bodies discovered was John Torrington, John Hartnell and William Braine. The ice had preserved the bodies well, however the preservation was most likely accidental, as it would have been highly doubtful that the explorers of the expedition would have considered purposely preserving the bodies in their desperate state.