From a distance, the mountain appears to be perfectly conical, despite the existence of the large crater.

Lower oil prices would mean less money to spend on domestic projects that buoy his popularity or on the nuclear program.

In 1968, British workmen entered what Bates claimed to be his territorial waters in order to service a navigational buoy near the platform.

Finches Order PasseriformesFamily FringillidaeFinches are small to moderately large seed eating passerine birds with a strong beak, usually conical and in some species very large.

Waves also reached extreme heights, with a buoy near the entrance to New York Harbor measuring a peak wave ten meters high, from crest to trough.

They give a snapshot of a variety of weather conditions at one single location and are usually at a weather station, a ship or a weather buoy.

The site of the village lies on the summit of a conical hill called Tel Tzova (), or Jabal Suba, rising 769 metres above sea level, and it was built on the ruins of a Crusader castle.

Given that the Book of Ingenious Devices was widely circulated across the Muslim world, some of its ideas may have also reached Europe through Islamic Spain, such as the use of automatic controls in later European machines or the use of conical valves in the work of Leonardo da Vinci.