Pão de Açúcar (Sugarloaf Mountain)
Tuesday, 6th September 2005 by Alex Turnbull
This is Pão de Açúcar (Sugarloaf Mountain) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Jutting out into the Atlantic Ocean, this peak rises 396 metres above Guanabara Bay. An absolutely awesome sight from up here.
The blue structure on the peak is the cable car station. You get on here, at the bottom, and then take a car up to the first peak, and then onwards to the very top! Also, these were the cable cars where they filmed the scene in Moonraker where Jaws bites right through the cable! Cool.
Just to the south here is the gigantic Copacabana beach! So big that you can easily fit what looks like a beach volleyball court on there! (Mmmm, beach volleyball... 😉 )
Thanks and Bodo Maller, Didier, Tom B, Simon and Ronaldo Reis.
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up to the north of Sugarloaf is a very long bridge – just north-east of that are a lot of naval ships – south-west of the bridge at View Placemark are a couple of aircraft carriers
I presume that the Carrier with the angled flight deck is the Sau Paulo, which used to belong to the French (then called Foch).
Wikipedia has some stuff on it.
Kind of odd – when you try it in Google Earth, it shows the whole area as flat. You can see some mountains in the distance, but this mountain has no elevation.
Talking about Rio… you shouldn’t forget the giant Jesus statue, it’s not far: View Placemark