Context: During the Eocene (56 million years ago - 33.9 million years ago), the continents continued to drift toward their present positions. At the beginning of the period, Australia and Antarctica remained connected, and warm equatorial currents mixed with colder Antarctic waters, distributing the heat around the world and keeping global temperatures high. But when Australia split from the southern continent around 45 Ma, the warm equatorial currents were deflected away from Antarctica, and an isolated cold water channel developed between the two continents. The Antarctic region cooled down, and the ocean surrounding Antarctica began to freeze, sending cold water and ice floes north, reinforcing the cooling. The present pattern of ice ages began about 40 million years ago.[citation needed]

Question: During what years did the Eocene period take place?
Answer: 56 million years ago - 33.9 million years ago

Question: Australia was connected to which other continent at the start of the Eocene?
Answer: Antarctica

Question: How long ago did Antarctica and Australia split?
Answer: around 45 Ma

Question: Around how many years ago is the current ice age pattern believed to have begun?
Answer: 40 million years

Question: The mixing of equatorial currents with Antarctic waters in the Eocene resulted in what?
Answer: keeping global temperatures high

Question: What reached their final positions during the Eocene?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What was Australia seperated from at the begining of the Eocene?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What pattern ended 45 million years ago 
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What steared warm waters towards the Artic?
Answer: Unanswerable