Sugarloaf (mountain)

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] According to the United States Board on Geographic Names, there are over 200 such designations in the United States alone.^[2]

Australia

There are over 450 hills, mountains or peaks named with a variant of "sugarloaf" or "sugar loaf".^[3] 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^[4]
• Mt Sugarloaf, in Kinglake National Park^[5]

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 ("Sugarloaf Mountain"), in Medellin, Antioquia

Ireland

• Great Sugar Loaf, in east County Wicklow
• Little Sugar Loaf, in east County Wicklow
• Sugarloaf (Cork), in southwest County Cork
• 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

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. ^[6][7]

United Kingdom

• Sugar Loaf, Carmarthenshire, Wales
• Sugar Loaf, Monmouthshire, Wales
• 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 Mountain (Rutherford County, North Carolina)
• 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

New York

• 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)

Uruguay

• Cerro Pan de Azúcar (Sugarloaf Hill), Maldonado

References

1. New Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus. "sugarloaf." Lexicon Publications, Danbury, Connecticut, 1993.
2. U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN)
3. http://www.mymaps.gov.au/gazetteer/
4. http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/DPI/Vro/coranregn.nsf/pages/corangamite_eruption_points_leura
5. http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/1park_display.cfm?park=121
6. U.S. Army corps of Engineers. (1952). "Calayan Island (topography map) - near 19° 30' N, 122° 00' E ". University of Texas in Austin Library. Retrieved on 2014-09-01.
7. U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey (1919). "United States Coast Pilot, Part 1", pg. 19. Government Printing Office, Washington.