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For other places and things called "sugarloaf" or "sugar loaf", see Sugarloaf (disambiguation).

An actual sugarloaf, after which many mountains are named.

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]


Österreich

Australien

Brasilien

Kanada

Grönland

  • 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

Neuseeland

Norwegen

  • Sukkertoppen (lit. 'Sugarloaf peak'), a 314m mountain on the island of Hessa in Ålesund, Norway

Philippinen

Sierra Leone

Vereinigtes Königreich

Vereinigte Staaten

Uruguay

See also

References

  1. ^ New Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus. "sugarloaf." Lexicon Publications, Danbury, Connecticut, 1993.
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