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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 A bornhardt () is a dome-shaped, steep-sided, bald rock outcropping at least in height and several hundred metres in width. They are named after Wilhelm Bornhardt (1864–1946), a German geologist and explorer of German East Africa, who first d ...
,
inselberg An inselberg or monadnock () is an isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain. In Southern Africa a similar formation of granite is known as a koppie, a ...
, etc. Landforms resembling the characteristic conical shape of a
sugarloaf A sugarloaf was the usual form in which refined sugar was produced and sold until the late 19th century, when granulated and cube sugars were introduced. A tall cone with a rounded top was the end product of a process in which dark molasses, a r ...
were often so named.''New Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus.'' "sugarloaf." Lexicon Publications, Danbury, Connecticut, 1993. __NOTOC__


Australia

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Mount Sugarloaf (New South Wales) Mount Sugarloaf, also known as ''Great Sugar Loaf'', is a mountain in the lower Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, standing at 412 meters (1,352 feet), it looks over the cities of Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Cessnock and Maitland. The ...
* Sugarloaf Peak and Sugarloaf Saddle in
Cathedral Range The Cathedral Range is a mountain range immediately to the south of Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park. The range is an offshoot of the Sierra Nevada. The range is named after Cathedral Peak, which resembles a cathedral spire. Geograph ...
, 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 South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...


Brazil

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Sugarloaf Mountain Sugarloaf Mountain ( pt, Pão de Açúcar, ) is a peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the mouth of Guanabara Bay on a peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean. Rising above the harbor, the peak is named for its resemblance to ...
(''Pão de Açúcar''), in Rio de Janeiro


Canada

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Sugarloaf Mountain (New Brunswick) Sugarloaf Mountain is a mountain in the northern Appalachian Mountains in Campbellton, New Brunswick, Canada. The mountain is protected by Sugarloaf Provincial Park and lies within city limits, just south of the urban area. Visitor attractions ...
* Wilkie Sugar Loaf in Nova Scotia * Pain de Sucre ("Sugarloaf") summit of
Mont Saint-Hilaire Mont Saint-Hilaire (English: Mount Saint-Hilaire; abe, Wigwômadenizibo; see for other names) is an isolated hill, high, in the Montérégie region of southern Quebec. It is about thirty kilometres east of Montreal, and immediately east of the ...
, Quebec * Mount Cheminis or Mont Chaudron on the Quebec-Ontario border * Sugarloaf Mountain, Nanaimo, British Columbia


Ireland

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Great Sugar Loaf Great Sugar Loaf () at , is the 404th–highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin scale, however, being below 600 m it does not rank on the Vandeleur-Lynam or Hewitt scales.Mountainviews, (September 2013), "A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits ...
, 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 in County Waterford


New Zealand

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Mount Sugarloaf 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 ...
(1238m), by Lake Heron, South Island, New Zealand * Sugar Loaf Islands, near New Plymouth *
Sugarloaf (Christchurch) Sugarloaf ( mi, Te Heru o Kahukura) is a landmark in the Port Hills to the south of the city of Christchurch in New Zealand. The Māori part of the name means the headcomb of Kahukura. The Sugarloaf communications tower is an iconic radio an ...
, a peak in the Port Hills with a prominent transmission tower


Norway

* Sukkertoppen ("Sugarloaf peak"), a 314m mountain on the island of Hessa in
Ålesund Ålesund () sometimes spelled Aalesund in English, is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal County, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sunnmøre and the centre of the Ålesund Region. The town of Ålesund is the administrativ ...
, Norway


Philippines

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Pan de Azucar Island Pan de Azucar, variously known as Tampisaw Island or Tambaliza (which is also the name of one of the barangays on the island), is a populated island in the Visayan Sea in the Philippines. The island is known for Mount ''Pan de Azucar'' (Sugarloa ...
in Iloilo province


Sierra Leone

* Sugar Loaf (Freetown) is a mountain on the edge of the capital city


United Kingdom

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Sugar Loaf, Carmarthenshire Sugar Loaf, sometimes called The Sugar Loaf, is a prominent hill in Carmarthenshire, Wales beside the A483 trunk road some south-west of Llanwrtyd Wells. It is a popular viewpoint and picnic spot within easy reach on foot from the roadside car ...
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Sugar Loaf, Monmouthshire Sugar Loaf, sometimes called The Sugar Loaf ( cy, Mynydd Pen-y-fâl or ), is a hill situated north-west of Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales and sits within the Brecon Beacons National Park. It is the southernmost of the summit peaks of the ...
, Wales * Sugarloaf Hill, Malvern, England * Sugarloaf Hill,
Folkestone Downs The Folkestone Downs are an area of chalk downland above Folkestone, where the eastern end of the North Downs escarpment meets the English Channel. Part of the Downs is the Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment Site of Special Scientific Interest, ...
, England


United States

* Sugar Loaf Mountain (Alaska) *
Sugarloaf Mountain (Cleburne County, Arkansas) Sugarloaf Mountain is a hiking and mountain biking destination located in Cleburne County, Arkansas, east of the city of Heber Springs, Arkansas, in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It is a 690 feet (210 m) erosional remnant beside Little Red ...
* 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 Mountain Sugarloaf Mountain ( pt, Pão de Açúcar, ) is a peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the mouth of Guanabara Bay on a peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean. Rising above the harbor, the peak is named for its resemblance to ...
( Boulder County,
Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the wes ...
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Sugarloaf Mountain (Florida) Sugarloaf Mountain is the fifth-highest named point and the most prominent point in the U.S. state of Florida. At above sea level it is also the highest point on the geographic Florida Peninsula. The hill is in Lake County, near the town of ...
, the highest point of peninsular Florida * Sugarloaf Mountain (Rowan County, Kentucky) * Sugarloaf Mountain (Franklin County, Maine) * Sugarloaf Mountain (Maryland) *
Sugarloaf Mountain (Franklin County, Massachusetts) Sugarloaf Mountain or Mount Sugarloaf, is a butte-like mountain located in South Deerfield, Massachusetts, United States, with two summits, North Sugarloaf Mountain and its more popular knee, South Sugarloaf Mountain . Its cliffs, made of ark ...
* Sugarloaf Mountain (Marquette, Michigan) *
Sugar Loaf (Mackinac Island) Sugar Loaf is a 75-foot-high (23m) landlocked rock or stack in the interior of Mackinac Island in Lake Huron. Created by erosion during the period of postglacial Lake Algonquin, Sugar Loaf is the largest post-glacial erosion feature in the Stra ...
, a rock formation on Mackinac Island in Michigan *
Sugar Loaf (Winona, Minnesota) Sugar Loaf is a bluff on the Mississippi River topped by a rock pinnacle, overlooking the city of Winona, Minnesota, United States. The name "Sugar Loaf" is sometimes taken to mean just the rock pinnacle, which was created by quarrying in the ...
* Sugarloaf (New York) * Sugarloaf Hill (Putnam County, New York), and Sugarloaf Mountain (Dutchess County, New York), two adjacent peaks in the
Hudson Highlands The Hudson Highlands are mountains on both sides of the Hudson River in New York state lying primarily in Putnam County on its east bank and Orange County on its west. They continue somewhat to the south in Westchester County and Rockland Count ...
of New York * Sugarloaf Mountain (Greene County, New York), one of the
Catskill High Peaks The Catskill High Peaks are all of the mountains in New York (state), New York's Catskill Mountains above in elevation whose summits are separated either by ''or'' a vertical drop of at least between it and the next nearest separate summit. B ...
* 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 Great may refer to: Descriptions or measurements * Great, a relative measurement in physical space, see Size * Greatness, being divine, majestic, superior, majestic, or transcendent People * List of people known as "the Great" *Artel Great (born ...
, located in Chillicothe, Ohio * Sugar Loaf Mountain (Oklahoma), summit with the most
prominence In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop or relative height in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contou ...
in the state * Sugarloaf Mountain (Pennsylvania), inside the eponymous Sugarloaf Township of
Luzerne County Luzerne County is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and is water. It is Northeastern Pennsylvania's second-largest county by total area. As of ...
* Sugarloaf Mountain (South Carolina), near Patrick,(Chesterfield County, South Carolina) * Sugarloaf Mountain (El Paso, Texas) in the Franklin Mountains State Park * Sugarloaf Mountain (Utah), a mountain near the
Alta Ski Area Alta is a ski area in the western United States, located in the town of Alta in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, in Salt Lake County. With a skiable area of , Alta's base elevation is and rises to for a vertical gain of . One of the oldest ski ...
outside of Salt Lake City, Utah * Sugarloaf Mountain (Wyoming), in the
Snowy Range The Medicine Bow Mountains are a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains that extend from northern Colorado into southern Wyoming. The northern extent of this range is the sub-range the Snowy Range. From the northern end of Colorado's Never Summer ...
. * Sugarloaf Mountain (Vermont), a prominence southeast of Sugarbush Resort.


Uruguay

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Cerro Pan de Azúcar Cerro Pan de Azúcar (''Sugar Loaf Hill'') is among the top 10 highest points of Uruguay, with an altitude of 423 metres (1,387.8 ft). Location and features It is located southwest of Maldonado Department, in the municipality of Piri ...
(Sugarloaf Hill), Maldonado


See also

* For the ''Battle of Sugar Loaf Hill'', see Battle of Okinawa *
Sugarloaf (New Zealand) Sugarloaf ( mi, Te Heru o Kahukura) is a landmark in the Port Hills to the south of the city of Christchurch in New Zealand. The Māori part of the name means the headcomb of Kahukura. The Sugarloaf communications tower is an iconic radio an ...
, communications tower at
Port Hills The Port Hills are a range of hills in Canterbury Region, so named because they lie between the city of Christchurch and its port at Lyttelton. They are an eroded remnant of the Lyttelton volcano, which erupted millions of years ago. The hi ...
, Christchurch


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