Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-423-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-423-2019
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14 Mar 2019
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Pleistocene glacial history of the New Zealand subantarctic islands

Eleanor Rainsley, Chris S. M. Turney, Nicholas R. Golledge, Janet M. Wilmshurst, Matt S. McGlone, Alan G. Hogg, Bo Li, Zoë A. Thomas, Richard Roberts, Richard T. Jones, Jonathan G. Palmer, Verity Flett, Gregory de Wet, David K. Hutchinson, Mathew J. Lipson, Pavla Fenwick, Ben R. Hines, Umberto Binetti, and Christopher J. Fogwill

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (11 Sep 2018) by Denis-Didier Rousseau
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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (22 Nov 2018) by Denis-Didier Rousseau
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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (17 Dec 2018) by Denis-Didier Rousseau
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The New Zealand subantarctic islands, in the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean, provide valuable records of past environmental change. We find that the Auckland Islands hosted a small ice cap around 384 000 years ago, but that there was little glaciation during the Last Glacial Maximum, around 21 000 years ago, in contrast to mainland New Zealand. This shows that the climate here is susceptible to changes in regional factors such as sea-ice expanse and the position of ocean fronts.