The last major Ice Age – The Quaternary Ice Age – started over 2.5 million years ago (mya) and is still going with intermittent Warming Periods, such as what is being experienced now. During one of the most recent peaks of cold, about 50,000 ya, land bridges formed from the Bering Strait North-East of Alaska and the many islands within The Banda Strait of South-East Asia.
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