:''Mountains with a similar name are listed at

Sugarloaf_(mountain) 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 ...

'' Sugar Loaf is a forested mountain in the Western Area of

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierra ...

in west

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

. The capital city of

Freetown Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone. It is a major port city on the Atlantic Ocean and is located in the Western Area of the country. Freetown is Sierra Leone's major urban, economic, financial, cultural, educational and p ...

is built around its lower slopes. Parts of the mountain are protected as the

Western Area Forest Reserve Western Area Peninsula National Park is a protected area in Sierra Leone. It covers an area of 183.37 km². History The area became a forest reserve in 1916 and had an area of . It was demarcated by Charles Lane Poole, Sierra Leone's first ever ...

. The 19th-century British missionary George Thompson documented his ascent of Sugar Loaf in his 1859 book ''The Palm Land; Or, West Africa, Illustrated''. On Monday 14 August, 2017 in the

2017 Sierra Leone mudslides On the morning of August 14, 2017, significant mudflow events occurred in and around the capital city of Freetown in Sierra Leone. Following three days of torrential rainfall, mass wasting of mud and debris damaged or destroyed hundreds of bui ...

a landslide triggered by heavy rains swept down one of its flanks and inundated a part of the urban area of

Regent A regent (from Latin : ruling, governing) is a person appointed to govern a state '' pro tempore'' (Latin: 'for the time being') because the monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge the powers and duties of the monarchy ...

with mud with many deaths reported.

References

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