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You might like to read the following interesting links regarding this…
Paleoclimatology : Explaining the Evidence
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Fea...logy_Evidence/
Southern hemisphere glacial and estimated sea ice coverage (see map)
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/slide...178_slide.html
Note ice formations in South America and not Australia
… and the Northern Hemisphere;
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/slide...177_slide.html
You might also like to look at some of the graphs;
Glacial and interglacial Scale
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ctl/clisci100k.html
(especially a. and b. at the bottom of this page)