Sugarloaf (mountain)
For other places and things called "sugarloaf" or "sugar loaf", see Sugarloaf (disambiguation).
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 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
- ↑ New Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus. "sugarloaf." Lexicon Publications, Danbury, Connecticut, 1993.
- ↑ U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN)
- ↑ http://www.mymaps.gov.au/gazetteer/
- ↑ http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/DPI/Vro/coranregn.nsf/pages/corangamite_eruption_points_leura
- ↑ http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/1park_display.cfm?park=121
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey (1919). "United States Coast Pilot, Part 1", pg. 19. Government Printing Office, Washington.
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