An actual
sugarloaf, after which many mountains are named.
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]
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.
An actual
sugarloaf, after which many mountains are named.
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]
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.