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For other places and things called "sugarloaf" or "sugar loaf", see Sugarloaf (disambiguation).

An actual sugarloaf, after which many mountains are named.

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.


Austria

Australia

Brazil

Canada

Greenland

  • Sugarloaf Mountain in Kangerlussuaq
  • Gammel Sukkertoppen (Old Sugar Loaf) and Ny Sukkertoppen (New Sugar Loaf), the Danish names of Kangaamiut and Maniitsoq, respectively, named for the mountains surrounding the former. Dutch whalers and traders referred to the mountains as Zuikerbrood.

Ireland

New Zealand

Norway

  • Sukkertoppen (lit. 'Sugarloaf peak'), a 314m mountain on the island of Hessa in Ålesund, Norway

Philippines

Sierra Leone

United Kingdom

United States

Uruguay

See also

References

  1. New Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus. "sugarloaf." Lexicon Publications, Danbury, Connecticut, 1993.
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