<P> Kreutz et al. (1997) compared results from studies of West Antarctic ice cores with the Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two GISP2 and suggested a synchronous global cooling . An ocean sediment core from the eastern Bransfield Basin in the Antarctic Peninsula shows centennial events that the authors link to the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period . The authors note "other unexplained climatic events comparable in duration and amplitude to the LIA and MWP events also appear ." </P> <P> The Siple Dome (SD) had a climate event with an onset time that is coincident with that of the Little Ice Age in the North Atlantic based on a correlation with the GISP2 record . The event is the most dramatic climate event in the SD Holocene glaciochemical record . The Siple Dome ice core also contained its highest rate of melt layers (up to 8%) between 1550 and 1700, most likely because of warm summers . Law Dome ice cores show lower levels of CO mixing ratios from 1550 to 1800, which Etheridge and Steele conjecture are "probably as a result of colder global climate ." </P> <P> Sediment cores in Bransfield Basin, Antarctic Peninsula, have neoglacial indicators by diatom and sea - ice taxa variations during the Little Ice Age . Stable isotope records from the Mount Erebus Saddle ice core site suggests that the Ross Sea region experienced 1.6 ± 1.4 ° C cooler average temperatures during the Little Ice Age, compared to the last 150 years . </P> <P> Limited evidence describes conditions in Australia . Lake records in Victoria suggest that conditions, at least in the south of the state, were wet and / or unusually cool . In the north, evidence suggests fairly dry conditions, but coral cores from the Great Barrier Reef show similar rainfall as today but with less variability . A study that analyzed isotopes in Great Barrier Reef corals suggested that increased water vapor transport from southern tropical oceans to the poles contributed to the Little Ice Age . Borehole reconstructions from Australia suggest that over the last 500 years, the 17th century was the coldest on the continent, but the borehole temperature reconstruction method does not show good agreement between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres . </P>

Where did the little ice age take place