The name Sugarloaf or Sugar Loaf applies to numerous raised topographic landforms worldwide: mountains, hills, peaks, summits, buttes, ridges, rock formations,

bornhardt A bornhardt () is a dome-shaped, steep-sided, bald rock outcropping at least in height and several hundred metres in width. They are named after Wilhelm Bornhardt (1864–1946), a German geologist and explorer of German East Africa, who first d ...

inselberg An inselberg or monadnock () is an isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain. In Southern Africa a similar formation of granite is known as a koppie, a ...

, etc. Landforms resembling the characteristic conical shape of a

sugarloaf A sugarloaf was the usual form in which refined sugar was produced and sold until the late 19th century, when granulated and cube sugars were introduced. A tall cone with a rounded top was the end product of a process in which dark molasses, a ...

were often so named.''New Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus.'' "sugarloaf." Lexicon Publications, Danbury, Connecticut, 1993. __NOTOC__

Australia

Mount Sugarloaf (New South Wales) Mount Sugarloaf, also known as ''Great Sugar Loaf'', is a mountain in the lower Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, standing at 412 meters (1,352 feet), it looks over the cities of Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Cessnock and Maitland. T ...

* Sugarloaf Peak and Sugarloaf Saddle in

Cathedral Range The Cathedral Range is a mountain range immediately to the south of Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park. The range is an offshoot of the Sierra Nevada. The range is named after Cathedral Peak, which resembles a cathedral spire. Geograph ...

, Victoria * Mt Sugarloaf, a peak on

Mount Leura Mount Leura is a 313-metre scoria cone surrounding a dry crater 100 m deep and is the central and most obvious component of a larger volcanic complex southeast of the town of Camperdown located in western Victoria, Australia, south west of th ...

, Victoria * Mt Sugarloaf, in

Kinglake National Park The Kinglake National Park is a national park in Central Victoria, Australia. The national park is situated northeast of Melbourne and includes tracks (some with wheelchair access), and camping facilities. The national park includes Masons Fal ...

* Sugarloaf, in Mount Buangor State Park * Mt Sugarloaf, peak in the Pyrete Range of

Lerderderg State Park Lerderderg State Park (incorporating the former Pyrete State Forest) is a 14,250-hectare park located between Bacchus Marsh and Blackwood, an hour's drive from Melbourne, Australia. The park is part of an Aboriginal cultural landscape in the tra ...

, Victoria * The Sugarloaf, Hallett Cove,

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

Brazil

Sugarloaf Mountain Sugarloaf Mountain ( pt, Pão de Açúcar, ) is a peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the mouth of Guanabara Bay on a peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean. Rising above the harbor, the peak is named for its resemblance t ...

(''Pão de Açúcar''), in Rio de Janeiro

Canada

Sugarloaf Mountain (New Brunswick) Sugarloaf Mountain is a mountain in the northern Appalachian Mountains in Campbellton, New Brunswick, Canada. The mountain is protected by Sugarloaf Provincial Park and lies within city limits, just south of the urban area. Visitor attractions ...

* Wilkie Sugar Loaf in Nova Scotia * Pain de Sucre ("Sugarloaf") summit of

Mont Saint-Hilaire Mont Saint-Hilaire (English: Mount Saint-Hilaire; abe, Wigwômadenizibo; see for other names) is an isolated hill, high, in the Montérégie region of southern Quebec. It is about thirty kilometres east of Montreal, and immediately east of th ...

, Quebec * Mount Cheminis or Mont Chaudron on the Quebec-Ontario border * Sugarloaf Mountain, Nanaimo, British Columbia

Ireland

Great Sugar Loaf Great Sugar Loaf () at , is the 404th–highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin scale, however, being below 600 m it does not rank on the Vandeleur-Lynam or Hewitt scales.Mountainviews, (September 2013), "A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits: T ...

, a 501 m peak in east County Wicklow * Little Sugar Loaf, a 342 m peak in east County Wicklow *

Sugarloaf (County Cork) Sugarloaf Mountain () is a mountain south-west of Glengarriff in County Cork, Ireland. Geography It is one of the Caha Mountains The Caha Mountains (''An Cheacha'' in Irish) are a range of low sandstone mountains situated on the Bea ...

, a 574 m peak near Glengarriff in County Cork * Sugarloaf (West Wicklow), a 552 m peak in west County Wicklow * Sugarloaf Hill (Knockmealdowns), a 663 m peak in the Knockmealdowns in County Waterford

New Zealand

* Mount Sugarloaf (1238m), by Lake Heron, South Island, New Zealand *

Sugar Loaf Islands The Sugar Loaf Islands (often Sugarloaf; mi, Ngā Motu, ) are a collection of five small uninhabited islands and several sea stacks near Port Taranaki, New Zealand. The largest, Moturoa Island, covers approximately . Motumahanga is the island ...

, near New Plymouth * Sugarloaf (Christchurch), a peak in the Port Hills with a prominent transmission tower

Norway

* Sukkertoppen ("Sugarloaf peak"), a 314m mountain on the island of Hessa in

Ålesund Ålesund () sometimes spelled Aalesund in English, is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal County, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sunnmøre and the centre of the Ålesund Region. The town of Ålesund is the administrative ...

, Norway

Philippines

* Pan de Azucar Island in Iloilo province

Sierra Leone

* Sugar Loaf (Freetown) is a mountain on the edge of the capital city

United Kingdom

* Sugar Loaf, Carmarthenshire, Wales * Sugar Loaf, Monmouthshire, Wales *

Sugarloaf Hill, Malvern Sugarloaf Hill lies between the Worcestershire Beacon and North Hill in the range of Malvern Hills that runs about north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in th ...

, England * Sugarloaf Hill,

Folkestone Downs The Folkestone Downs are an area of chalk downland above Folkestone, where the eastern end of the North Downs escarpment meets the English Channel. Part of the Downs is the Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment Site of Special Scientific Interest, ...

, England

United States

Sugar Loaf Mountain (Alaska) Sugar Loaf Mountain, also known as Sugar Mountain, is a summit located in the Alaska Range, near Denali National Park and Preserve, in Alaska, United States. It is situated northeast of park headquarters and southeast of Healy. The George Park ...

* Sugarloaf Mountain (Cleburne County, Arkansas) * Sugarloaf Mountain (Arizona) *

Sugarloaf Mountain (Butte County, California) :: Sugarloaf is in the name of two different mountains that are located in Butte County of northern California. Butte County mountains * Sugarloaf Peak — a hill rising to about above sea level, at . :::Located in the eastern Sacramento Valley, ...

* Sugarloaf Mountain (Riverside County, California) *

Sugarloaf Mountain (San Bernardino County, California) Sugarloaf Mountain is a large prominent peak in the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California. With a peak elevation of , it is the highest peak in the San Bernardino Mountains outside the San Gorgonio Wilderness.Sugarloaf Mountain (San Mateo, California) * Sugarloaf Ridge, situated in

Sugarloaf Ridge State Park Sugarloaf Ridge State Park is a state park in Northern California, United States. Located in the Mayacamas Mountains north of Kenwood, the park straddles the boundary between Sonoma and Napa counties. The park contains the Bald Mountain an ...

in Sonoma County, California *

(

Boulder County Boulder County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado of the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 330,758. The most populous municipality in the county and the county seat is Boulder. Boulder County comprises th ...

Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the wes ...

) *

Sugarloaf Mountain (Florida) Sugarloaf Mountain is the fifth-highest named point and the most prominent point in the U.S. state of Florida. At above sea level it is also the highest point on the geographic Florida Peninsula. The hill is in Lake County, near the town of ...

, the highest point of peninsular Florida *

Sugarloaf Mountain (Rowan County, Kentucky) Sugarloaf Mountain is a mountain located in Rowan County, Kentucky, just outside the City of Morehead, Kentucky. In January, 1904, a volcanic eruption on Sugarloaf Mountain was reported in ''The New York Times'', which noted much smoke, deep r ...

* Sugarloaf Mountain (Franklin County, Maine) *

Sugarloaf Mountain (Maryland) Sugarloaf Mountain is a small (1,283 foot; 391 m) mountain and park about 10 miles (16 km) south of Frederick, Maryland, USA. The closest village is Barnesville, located just over one mile from the foot of the mountain. The peak of this r ...

Sugarloaf Mountain (Franklin County, Massachusetts) Sugarloaf Mountain or Mount Sugarloaf, is a butte-like mountain located in South Deerfield, Massachusetts, United States, with two summits, North Sugarloaf Mountain and its more popular knee, South Sugarloaf Mountain . Its cliffs, made of arko ...

* Sugarloaf Mountain (Marquette, Michigan) *

Sugar Loaf (Mackinac Island) Sugar Loaf is a 75-foot-high (23m) landlocked rock or stack in the interior of Mackinac Island in Lake Huron. Created by erosion during the period of postglacial Lake Algonquin, Sugar Loaf is the largest post-glacial erosion feature in the Strai ...

, a rock formation on Mackinac Island in Michigan * Sugar Loaf (Winona, Minnesota) * Sugarloaf (New York) * Sugarloaf Hill (Putnam County, New York), and

Sugarloaf Mountain (Dutchess County, New York) Sugarloaf Mountain is a peak located in the town of Fishkill near the Hudson River and Breakneck Ridge. One of several similarly named mountains in the U.S. state of New York, it is part of the Hudson Highlands, located entirely within Huds ...

, two adjacent peaks in the

Hudson Highlands The Hudson Highlands are mountains on both sides of the Hudson River in New York state lying primarily in Putnam County on its east bank and Orange County on its west. They continue somewhat to the south in Westchester County and Rockland County ...

of New York *

Sugarloaf Mountain (Greene County, New York) Sugarloaf Mountain is a mountain located in Greene County, New York. The mountain is part of the Devil's Path range of the Catskill Mountains. To the northwest, Sugarloaf is separated from Plateau Mountain by Mink Hollow Notch; to the southe ...

, one of the

Catskill High Peaks The Catskill High Peaks are all of the mountains in New York's Catskill Mountains above in elevation whose summits are separated either by ''or'' a vertical drop of at least between it and the next nearest separate summit. By usual standards ...

Sugarloaf Mountain (Webb, New York) Sugarloaf Mountain is a summit located in Central New York Region of New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state in the ...

, in the Town of Webb in Herkimer County, New York * Sugar Loaf Mountain (Orange County, New York) *

Sugarloaf Mountain (Rutherford County, North Carolina) Sugarloaf Mountain ( pt, Pão de Açúcar, ) is a peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the mouth of Guanabara Bay on a peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean. Rising above the harbor, the peak is named for its resemblanc ...

* Sugarloaf (Geauga County, Ohio), one of the highest points of

Northeast Ohio The region Northeast Ohio, in the US state of Ohio, in its most expansive usage contains six metropolitan areas ( Cleveland–Elyria, Akron, Canton–Massillon, Youngstown–Warren, Mansfield, and Weirton–Steubenville) along with eight ...

Sugarloaf Mountain (Ross County, Ohio) Sugarloaf Mountain ( pt, Pão de Açúcar, ) is a peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the mouth of Guanabara Bay on a peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean. Rising above the harbor, the peak is named for its resemblanc ...

, situated in

Great Seal State Park Great may refer to: Descriptions or measurements * Great, a relative measurement in physical space, see Size * Greatness, being divine, majestic, superior, majestic, or transcendent People * List of people known as "the Great" *Artel Great (born ...

, located in Chillicothe, Ohio * Sugar Loaf Mountain (Oklahoma),

summit A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. The topographic terms acme, apex, peak (mountain peak), and zenith are synonymous. The term (mountain top) is generally used only for a m ...

with the most

prominence In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop or relative height in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contou ...

in the state *

Sugarloaf Mountain (Pennsylvania) Sugarloaf Mountain ( pt, Pão de Açúcar, ) is a peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the mouth of Guanabara Bay on a peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean. Rising above the harbor, the peak is named for its resemblance t ...

, inside the eponymous Sugarloaf Township of

Luzerne County Luzerne County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and is water. It is Northeastern Pennsylvania's second-largest county ...

* Sugarloaf Mountain (South Carolina), near Patrick,(Chesterfield County, South Carolina) * Sugarloaf Mountain (El Paso, Texas) in the

Franklin Mountains State Park Franklin Mountains State Park is a Texas state park in El Paso, Texas, in the United States. Park headquarters are located at an elevation of with the highest peak reaching . It is one of the largest urban parks in the nation lying completely ...

* Sugarloaf Mountain (Utah), a mountain near the

Alta Ski Area Alta is a ski area in the western United States, located in the town of Alta in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, in Salt Lake County. With a skiable area of , Alta's base elevation is and rises to for a vertical gain of . One of the oldest sk ...

outside of Salt Lake City, Utah * Sugarloaf Mountain (Wyoming), in the Snowy Range. * Sugarloaf Mountain (Vermont), a prominence southeast of Sugarbush Resort.

Uruguay

* Cerro Pan de Azúcar (Sugarloaf Hill), Maldonado

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