Antarctica of centuries. Several Antarctic ice streams, which account for about 10% of the ice sheet, flow to one of the many Antarctic ice shelves: see ice-sheet dynamics. East Antarctica lies on the Indian Ocean side of the Transantarctic Mountains and comprises Coats Land, Queen Maud Land, Enderby Land, Mac. Robertson Land, Wilkes Land, and Victoria Land. All but a small portion of this region lies within the Eastern Hemisphere. East Antarctica is largely covered by the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Vinson Massif, the highest peak in Antarctica at , is located in the Ellsworth Mountains. Antarctica contains many other mountains,
Mount Bruce (Antarctica) Mount Bruce (Antarctica) Mount Bruce is a prominent mountain, high, rising just south of Stuhlinger Ice Piedmont and between Gannutz Glacier and Barber Glacier in the Bowers Mountains, a major mountain range situated in Victoria Land, Antarctica. The topographical feature was discovered by members of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, who explored along this coast in the "Terra Nova" in February 1911, and named for Lieutenant Wilfred M. Bruce, Royal Navy Reserve, officer in charge of zoological work aboard the Terra Nova. The mountain lies situated on the Pennell Coast, a portion of Antarctica lying between Cape Williams and Cape