Sugarloaf (mountain)

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The name Sugarloaf applies to hundreds of raised topographic landforms worldwide: mountains, hills, peaks, summits, buttes, ridges, rock formations, etc. Landforms resembling the characteristic conical shape of a sugarloaf were often named so.^[1] According to the United States Board on Geographic Names, there are over 200 such designations in the United States alone.^[2]

Australia

• Mount Sugarloaf (Australia), near Newcastle, New South Wales
• Sugarloaf Hill, Sydney, New South Wales
• Sugarloaf Rock, Western Australia

Brazil

• Sugarloaf Mountain, Brazil (Pão de Açúcar), in Rio de Janeiro

Canada

• Mount Sugar Loaf, Quebec
• Sugarloaf Mountain (New Brunswick)

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

Isle of Man

• Sugarloaf Rock

United Kingdom

• Sugar Loaf Mountain, Wales
• Sugarloaf Hill, Folkestone

United States

• Sugarloaf Mountain in Boulder County, Colorado
• Sugarloaf Mountain (Florida), the highest point of peninsular Florida, located in the city of Clermont
• Sugarloaf Mountain (Estill County, Kentucky)
• Sugarloaf Mountain (Rowan County, Kentucky)
• Sugarloaf Mountain (Franklin County, Maine)
• Sugarloaf Mountain (Franklin County, Massachusetts)
• Sugarloaf Mountain (Maryland)
• Sugarloaf Mountain, a scenic area in Marquette, Michigan
• Sugar Loaf (Mackinac Island), a rock formation on Mackinac Island, Michigan
• Sugar Loaf (Winona, Minnesota)
• Sugarloaf Mountain (New York)
• Sugarloaf Mountain (Oregon)
• Sugarloaf Mountain (South Carolina)
• Sugarloaf Mountain (South Dakota)
• Sugarloaf Hills, two prominent peaks on Totoket Mountain in Connecticut.
• Sugarloaf Hill (Hudson Highlands), a prominent hill in the Hudson Valley
• Sugarloaf Ridge, situated in Sugarloaf Ridge State Park in northern California

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