Sugarloaf (mountain)

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The name Sugarloaf or Sugar Loaf applies to numerous raised topographic landforms worldwide: mountains, hills, peaks, summits, buttes, ridges, rock formations, bornhardt, inselberg, etc. Landforms resembling the characteristic conical shape of a sugarloaf were often so named. According to the United States Board on Geographic Names, there are over 200 such designations in the United States alone.

Map of Sugarloaf Mountain - Urca, Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Australia

There are over 450 hills, mountains or peaks named with a variant of "sugarloaf" or "sugar loaf". That includes 49 "the Sugarloaf" and 19 "Mount Sugarloaf".

Mount Sugarloaf (New South Wales), Australia

Sugarloaf Peak and Sugarloaf Saddle in Cathedral Range, Victoria

Mt Sugarloaf, a peak on Mount Leura, Victoria

Mt Sugarloaf, in Kinglake National Park

Sugarloaf, in Mount Buangor State Park

Brazil

Sugarloaf Mountain (Pão de Açúcar), in Rio de Janeiro

Canada

Sugarloaf Mountain (New Brunswick)

Wilkie Sugar Loaf in Nova Scotia

Pain de Sucre ("Sugarloaf") summit of Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec

Colombia

Cerro Pan de Azúcar (Colombia) ("Sugarloaf Mountain"), in Medellin, Antioquia

Ireland

Great Sugar Loaf, in east County Wicklow

Little Sugar Loaf, in east County Wicklow

Sugarloaf (County Cork), near Glengarriff

Sugarloaf (West Wicklow), in west County Wicklow

Sugarloaf Hill (Knockmealdowns), in County Waterford

Japan

For the battle of Sugar Loaf Hill where the United States 6th Marine Division fought, see Battle of Okinawa#Southern Okinawa

New Zealand

Sugar Loaf Islands, near New Plymouth

Sugarloaf (Christchurch), a peak in the Port Hills with a prominent transmission tower

Sugarloaf hill, Cass valley

Philippines

Pan de Azucar Island in Iloilo province

Pan de Azucar Island, a black, rocky, sugarloaf islet just south of Babuyan Island in northern Philippines.

United Kingdom

Sugar Loaf, Carmarthenshire, Wales

Sugar Loaf, Monmouthshire, Wales

Sugarloaf Hill, Malvern, England

Sugarloaf Hill, Folkestone Downs, England

United States of America

Sugar Loaf (Mackinac Island), a rock formation in on Mackinac Island in Michigan

Sugar Loaf (Winona, Minnesota)

Sugarloaf (Geauga County, Ohio), one of the highest points of Northeast Ohio

Sugarloaf Hills, two prominent peaks on Totoket Mountain in Connecticut

Sugarloaf Mountain (Cleburne County, Arkansas)

Sugarloaf Mountain (Arizona)

Sugarloaf Mountain (Butte County, California)

Sugarloaf Mountain (Riverside County, California)

Sugarloaf Mountain (San Bernardino County, California)

Sugarloaf Ridge, situated in Sugarloaf Ridge State Park in northern California

Sugarloaf Mountain (Florida), the highest point of peninsular Florida

Sugarloaf Mountain (Rowan County, Kentucky)

Sugarloaf Mountain (Franklin County, Maine)

Sugarloaf (ski resort)

Sugarloaf Mountain (Maryland)

Sugarloaf Mountain (Franklin County, Massachusetts)

Sugarloaf Mountain (Marquette, Michigan)

Sugarloaf Hill (Putnam County, New York) and Sugarloaf Mountain (Dutchess County, New York) two nearby peaks in the Hudson Highlands of New York

Sugarloaf Mountain (Greene County, New York), one of the Catskill High Peaks

Sugar Loaf Mountain (Orange County, New York)

Sugarloaf Mountain (Rutherford County, North Carolina)

Sugar Loaf Mountain, near Patrick,(Chesterfield County, South Carolina), is maintained by the Sand Hills State Forest, as a family recreational area.http://www.state.sc.us/forest/refshill.htm

Sugarloaf Mountain (Ross County, Ohio), situated in Great Seal State Park, located in Chillicothe, Ohio

Sugarloaf Mountain, a mountain near the Alta Ski Area outside of Salt Lake City, Utah

Uruguay

Cerro Pan de Azúcar (Sugarloaf Hill), Maldonado

References

Sugarloaf (mountain) Wikipedia

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