Dear Kate E. Ashley et al.,

Thank you for submitting your manuscript “Mid-Holocene Antarctic sea-ice increase driven by marine ice sheet retreat” to Climate of the Past, and for your response to the reviewers’ comments.

Based on the reviewers’ comments and your responses I would like to invite you to resubmit the manuscript after major revisions, where your responses to the reviewers’ comments are implemented. Please make it visible through track-changes where and what changes you have done in the revised manuscript.

Thanks again for submitting your manuscript to CP.

Best regards,
Bjørg Risebrobakken
Editor, Climate of the Past

Dear Kate E. Ashley et al.,

Thank you for submitting your revised version of your manuscript “Mid-Holocene Antarctic sea-ice increase driven by marine ice sheet retreat”. Overall, I think you have done a very good job addressing the reviewer’s comments. Before accepting the paper, I have a few minor comments that I would like you to address.

L56: In your responses to the reviewer 1 you stated that you would change from Antarctica to East Antarctica. I cannot see that this have been done.

L600: Please specify to where in the supplementary material you refer the reader.

L609: Here you refer to IRD, but with no reference to any of the figures or to literature. Please add appropriate reference. In you results section you mention IRD, but purely with a reference to a published paper and with no reference to any figures where the data is shown. So, is IRD part of your results or not?

L688: Instead of referring to “this study “, refer to the figure showing the relevant data. Specify what type of proxies the other studies you use to support this statement is based on.

L765: Delete the first “patterns”?

L735: In your response to reviewer 2 you stated that you would be more specific and instead of “most models” refer to “TRACE21”. This has not been done. Furthermore, why not include Figure S6 in the manuscript instead of as a supplement as long as it is discussed here?

Many of your figures are build-up of several panels/sub-figures (a, b, c,…). Occasionally you refer to the individual panels, but mostly you refer to the full figures without further specifications. Please check that whenever you only refer to one or a few of the datasets in a figure, specific with panels you refer to.

Best regards,
Bjørg Risebrobakken
Editor Climate of the Past

Dear Kate E. Ashley et al.,

I am pleased to accept your manuscript "Mid-Holocene Antarctic sea-ice increase driven by marine ice sheet retreat" for publication in Climate of the Past.

Best regards,
Bjørg Risebrobakken
Editor Climate of the Past