Sugar Loaf, Monmouthshire Sugar Loaf, Monmouthshire Sugar Loaf, sometimes called The Sugar Loaf ( or ), is a mountain situated north-west of Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales. It is the southernmost of the summit peaks of the Black Mountains, with a height of 1,955 feet (596 metres). The original Welsh name of the hill appears to have been Mynydd Pen-y-fâl. Translated into English, this name means 'mountain of the head/top of the peak/summit' from "mynydd", "pen" and "bâl". The name Sugar Loaf has been popularly applied to numerous hills which have a perceived resemblance to a sugarloaf; the nearest other such hill is the
Sugar Loaf Bay − Sugar Loaf Bay stretches for . The length of the bay reaches its maximum of at the point where the Greenland ice sheet () drains into the bay via Cornell Glacier. There are several islands and skerries in the bay, scattered over the entire area of the bay. Amitsorsuaq Island is the largest island in the bay, forming its southern boundary, and together with Nasaussaq Island separating the bay from the Nasaussap Saqqaa fjord. Ikermiorsuaq Island occupies the center of the bay, while in the northern part of the bay there is a chain of islands paralleling the coastline