Sugarloaf (mountain)

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]

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

• 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

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)
• Sugar Loaf, Carmarthenshire (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

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