The Little Ice Age was a period of regional cooling, particularly pronounced in the North Atlantic region. It was not a true ice age of global extent. The term was introduced into scientific literatur
The last written records of the Norse Greenlanders are from a 1408 marriage at Hvalsey Church, which is now the best-preserved Norse ruin.
The Seine frozen, 3 January 1880. At the end of the 19th century, the climate was still colder than today.
March Across the Belts, 1658
Winter skating on the main canal of Pompenburg, Rotterdam in 1825, shortly before the minimum, by Bartholomeus Johannes van Hove
An ice age is a period of time when decreased temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere results in the prolonged presence or expansion of continental alpine glaciers and polar ice caps. The term i
Little Ice Age
…The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of regional cooling, particularly pronounced in the North Atlantic region. It was not a true ice age of global extent. The term was introduced into scientific literature by François E. Matthes in 1939. The period has been conventionally defined as…
An artist's impression of ice age Earth at Pleistocene glacial maximum
Haukalivatnet lake (50 meters—164 feet—above sea level) where Jens Esmark in 1823 discovered similarities to moraines near existing glaciers in the high mountains
Stages of proglacial lake development in the region of the current North American Great Lakes
Scandinavia exhibits some of the typical effects of ice age glaciation such as fjords and lakes.