List of mountains named Sugarloaf

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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.[1]

An actual sugarloaf, after which many mountains are named.


Austria

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Australia

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Brazil

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Canada

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Greenland

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  • 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

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New Zealand

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Norway

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

Philippines

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Sierra Leone

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United Kingdom

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United States

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Uruguay

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See also

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References

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