Sugarloaf Island (Alaska)
Sugarloaf Island may refer to: * Sugarloaf Island (Alaska), one of the Barren Islands * Sugar Loaf Island (California) * Sugarloaf Island (South Shetland Islands) * Mota Island, northern Vanuatu * one of the Farallon Islands The Farallon Islands, or Farallones (from the Spanish ''farallón'' meaning "pillar" or "sea cliff"), are a group of islands and sea stacks in the Gulf of the Farallones, off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States. The island ...

Sugarloaf Island (Alaska)
Sugarloaf Island may refer to: * Sugarloaf Island (Alaska), one of the Barren Islands * Sugar Loaf Island (California) * Sugarloaf Island (South Shetland Islands) * Mota Island, northern Vanuatu * one of the Farallon Islands The Farallon Islands, or Farallones (from the Spanish ''farallón'' meaning "pillar" or "sea cliff"), are a group of islands and sea stacks in the Gulf of the Farallones, off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States. The island ...

Barren Islands
The Barren Islands (Sugpiaq: ''Usu'unaat'') are an archipelago in Alaska in the United States. They are the northernmost islands of the Kodiak Archipelago. The largest island of the group is Ushagat Island. The islands have a combined land area of 16.23 square miles (42.03 km²) and are uninhabited. The largest breeding grounds of seabirds in Alaska are located in the Barren Islands on East Amatuli Island and Nord Island. The archipelago is part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. Geography The Barren Islands are a group of islands in the Gulf of Alaska that lie off the south-central coast of Alaska in the United States. They are the northernmost islands of the Kodiak Archipelago. They are located between the Kenai Peninsula on the Alaskan mainland to their northeast and Shuyak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago to their southwest. They stretch across of the Gulf of Alaska, centered around . The Barren Islands group is made up of six islands: * East Amatuli ...
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Sugar Loaf Island (California)
Sugar Loaf Island, also known as ''Sugar Loaf'', ''Cape Rock'', ''Sugarloaf Island'', ''Sugar Loaf Rock'', and ''Sugarloaf Rock Island'' is an island offshore Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County, California. It is the westernmost island in California It is part of South Cape Mendocino State Marine Reserve, a large protected marine reserve centered on Cape Mendocino fully protected by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The area is one of the most undeveloped sections of the California coast, and its waters are home to important bird and mammal species. Within the South Cape Mendocino State Marine Reserve, the taking of any living marine resources is prohibited. Sugarloaf Island is covered by the Cape Mendocino, California U.S. Topographic Map quadrant. The island is named because it is shaped like a sugarloaf which was refined sugar in the form of a rounded cone, the most common way of distributing sugar until the late 19th century. The area provides essen ...
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Sugarloaf Island (South Shetland Islands)
Sugarloaf Island is a conspicuous small island which lies close to the east side of Clarence Island, midway between Cape Lloyd and Cape Bowles, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It lies 3.2 km north of Lebed Point, on the northern side of the entrance to Istros Bay. The name was in use by American and British sealers as early as 1822 and is now well established. Important Bird Area An 82 ha site, comprising all of Sugarloaf Island, the neighbouring ice-free coastal area of Clarence Island and the intervening marine area, has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a total of about 70,000 pairs of chinstrap penguins, as well as some 25,000 pairs of southern fulmars on the adjacent ice-free slopes of Clarence Island. MapsBritish Antarctic Territory.Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 61 54. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1972.South Shetland Islands: Elephant, Clarence and ...
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Mota Island
Mota (formerly ''Sugarloaf Island'') is an island in the Banks group of northern Vanuatu, with a population of about 700. Name The name ''Mota'' is an adaptation of the local name ''M̄ota'' . Cognates in other Torres-Banks languages include Mwotlap ''Am̄ot'' , Vera'a ''M̄ō'o'' , and Vurës ''M̄ot'' . They are all derived from a form *''mʷota'' in Proto-Torres-Banks, referring to the island. The form is possibly cognate with Proto-Polynesian * ''motu'' "island", from Proto-Oceanic ''*motus'' "broken off, detached". The same root is found in Mota Lava, the name of an island north of Mota ‒ etymologically, "big Mota". Geography Mota is located 18 km south of Mota Lava and 12 km east of Vanua Lava, the second-largest island in the Banks archipelago. The slightly oval island has a length of 5 km and has an area of 9.5 km². Mota is formed by an extinct, basaltic volcano, which reaches an altitude of 411 m above sea level in Mount Tawe. The island ...
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