- Sugarloaf (mountain)
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For other places and things called "sugarloaf" or "sugar loaf", see Sugarloaf (disambiguation).
The name Sugarloaf applies to thousands of 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]
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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 (Brazil) (Pão de Açúcar), in Rio de Janeiro
Canada
Ireland
- Great Sugar Loaf, in east County Wicklow
- Little Sugar Loaf, in east County Wicklow
- Sugarloaf (West Wicklow), in west County Wicklow
- Sugarloaf Hill (Knockmealdowns), in County Waterford
- Sugarloaf (Cork), in southwest County Cork
Japan
- For the battle of Sugar Loaf Hill, see Battle of Okinawa
New Zealand
- Sugar Loaf Islands, near New Plymouth
- Sugarloaf (Christchurch), a peak in the Port Hills with a prominent transmission tower
United Kingdom
- Sugar Loaf (Wales)
- Sugarloaf Hill (Folkestone)
United States of America
- Sugar Loaf (Mackinac Island), a rock formation in on Mackinac Island in Michigan
- Sugar Loaf (Winona, Minnesota)
- Sugarloaf Hill (Hudson Highlands), a prominent hill in the Hudson Valley, New York
- Sugarloaf Hills, two prominent peaks on Totoket Mountain in Connecticut
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Cleburne County, Arkansas), rising 690 feet above the fertile valley formed by Little Red River in the center of Cleburne County
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Arizona)
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Butte County, California)
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Riverside County, California)
- Sugarloaf Mountain (near Manitou Springs, Colorado)
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Florida), the highest point of peninsular Florida, located in the city of Clermont
- Sugar Loaf Mountain, a firing range on Fort Hood, Texas
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Franklin County, Maine)
- Sugarloaf (ski resort)
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Franklin County, Massachusetts)
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Greene County, New York)
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah), a mountain featuring intermediate- to expert-level ski terrain
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Marquette County, Michigan)
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Maryland)
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Pennsylvania)
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Rowan County, Kentucky)
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Virginia)
- Sugarloaf Mountain (Medicine Bow Mountains, Wyoming)
- Sugarloaf Ridge, situated in Sugarloaf Ridge State Park in northern California
Uruguay
- Cerro Pan de Azúcar Sugarloaf Hill, Maldonado, Uruguay
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
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