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.[1]
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Österreich
edit- Zuckerhütl ("Little Sugarloaf"), highest peak of the Stubai Alps, Tyrol
Australien
edit- Mount Sugarloaf (New South Wales)
- 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
- Mt Sugarloaf, peak in the Pyrete Range of Lerderderg State Park, Victoria
- The Sugarloaf, Hallett Cove, South Australia
Brasilien
edit- Sugarloaf Mountain (Pão de Açúcar), in Rio de Janeiro
Kanada
edit- Sugarloaf Mountain (New Brunswick)
- Wilkie Sugar Loaf in Nova Scotia
- Pain de Sucre ("Sugarloaf") summit of Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec
- Mount Cheminis or Mont Chaudron on the Quebec-Ontario border
- Sugarloaf Mountain, Nanaimo, British Columbia
Grönland
edit- Sugarloaf Mountain in Kangerlussuaq
- Gammel Sukkertoppen (Old Sugar Loaf) and Ny Sukkertoppen (New Sugar Loaf), the Danish names of Kangaamiut and Maniitsoq, respectively, named for the mountains surrounding the former. Dutch whalers and traders referred to the mountains as Zuikerbrood.
Irland
edit- Great Sugar Loaf, a 501 m peak in east County Wicklow
- Little Sugar Loaf, a 342 m peak in east County Wicklow
- Sugarloaf (County Cork), a 574 m peak near Glengarriff in County Cork
- Sugarloaf (West Wicklow), a 552 m peak in west County Wicklow
- Sugarloaf Hill (Knockmealdowns), a 663 m peak in the Knockmealdowns on the Tipperary/Waterford border
Neuseeland
edit- Mount Sugarloaf (1238m), by Lake Heron, South Island, New Zealand
- Sugar Loaf Islands, near New Plymouth
- Sugarloaf (Christchurch), a peak in the Port Hills with a prominent transmission tower
Norwegen
editPhilippinen
edit- Pan de Azucar Island in Iloilo province
Sierra Leone
edit- Sugar Loaf (Freetown) is a mountain on the edge of the capital city
Vereinigtes Königreich
edit- Sugar Loaf, Carmarthenshire, Wales
- Sugar Loaf, Monmouthshire, Wales
- Sugarloaf Hill, Malvern, England
- Sugarloaf Hill, Folkestone Downs, England
Vereinigte Staaten
edit- Sugar Loaf Mountain (Alaska)
- 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 Mountain (San Mateo, California)
- Sugarloaf Ridge, situated in Sugarloaf Ridge State Park in Sonoma County, California
- Sugarloaf Dome
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Boulder County, Colorado)
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Florida), the highest point of peninsular Florida
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Rowan County, Kentucky)
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Maine)
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Maryland)
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Massachusetts)
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Marquette, Michigan)
- Sugar Loaf (Mackinac Island), a rock formation on Mackinac Island in Michigan
- Sugar Loaf (Winona, Minnesota)
- Sugarloaf (New York)
- Sugarloaf Hill (Putnam County, New York), and Sugarloaf Mountain (Dutchess County, New York), two adjacent peaks in the Hudson Highlands of New York
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Greene County, New York), one of the Catskill High Peaks
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Webb, New York), in the Town of Webb in Herkimer County, New York
- Sugar Loaf Mountain (Orange County, New York)
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Rutherford County, North Carolina)
- Sugarloaf (Geauga County, Ohio), one of the highest points of Northeast Ohio
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Ross County, Ohio), situated in Great Seal State Park, located in Chillicothe, Ohio
- Sugar Loaf Mountain (Oklahoma), summit with the most prominence in the state
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Pennsylvania), inside the eponymous Sugarloaf Township of Luzerne County
- Sugarloaf Mountain (South Carolina), near Patrick,(Chesterfield County, South Carolina)
- Sugarloaf Mountain (El Paso, Texas) in the Franklin Mountains State Park
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Gause, Texas), sacred to the Tonkawa tribe
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Utah), a mountain near the Alta Ski Area outside of Salt Lake City, Utah
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Wyoming), in the Snowy Range.
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Vermont), a prominence southeast of Sugarbush Resort.
Uruguay
edit- Cerro Pan de Azúcar (Sugarloaf Hill), Maldonado
See also
edit- For the Battle of Sugar Loaf Hill, see Battle of Okinawa
- Sugarloaf (New Zealand), communications tower at Port Hills, Christchurch
References
edit- ^ New Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus. "sugarloaf." Lexicon Publications, Danbury, Connecticut, 1993.