The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is the sector of the Antarctic Ice Sheet covering East Antarctica. It first formed around 34 million years ago and, considered independently, is the largest ice sheet on Earth, with greater volume than the Greenland Ice Sheet or the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, from which it is separated by the Transantarctic Mountains. It is about 2.2 kilometers thick on average and reaches 4,897 meters at its thickest point, and it is home to the geographic South Pole, the magnetic south pole, and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
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