List_of_mountains_named_Sugarloaf

List of mountains named <i>Sugarloaf</i>

List of mountains named Sugarloaf

List of mountains with the same or similar names


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

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 ("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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