Ko Tapu, in Phang Nga Bay in Phuket, Thailand , is so closely associated with 007 that it's popularly known as James Bond Island (pictured right). Little more than a big limestone rock (it's 8m across at its widest point and 20m tall), Ko Tapu and its bigger neighbour Khao Phing Kan featured as the hideout of assassin Francisco Scaramanga in 1974's The Man with the Golden Gun and have proved popular with tourists in the years since.
  A white-bikini-clad Honey Ryder emerging from the ocean in the first Bond film, 1962's Dr No, is one of the franchise's genuinely iconic scenes. It takes place at Crab Key, the fictional island lair of villain Dr No, and was filmed near the town of Ocho Rios in Jamaica  - the area where Ian Fleming lived while writing his James Bond novels. 
  In 1983's Octopussy, Bond infiltrates the floating palace of the eponymous jewel smuggler while disguised as a crocodile. The action takes place at the real-life Lake Palace in Lake Pichola in Udaipur, India  - a 1740s former royal palace now operated as a luxury hotel by the Raj group. It's frequently cited as one of India's most expensive places to stay. 
  Switzerland has form when it comes to Bond locations - 007's jump off the Contra Dam, near Locarno, in 1995's GoldenEye is famous. But the night-time ski chase in 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service, in which the spy is pursued by Ernst Blofeld and his henchmen down a snowy mountainside, is particularly memorable. Standing in for Blofeld's alpine lair was a revolving restaurant (known in the film and real life as Piz Gloria) on the 2970m Schilthorn, in the Swiss Alps . 
  Moonraker is perhaps best known for its sequences set in outer space but the 1979 film's earthbound scenes feature some of South America's most famous landmarks, including a jet-boat river chase to Iguazu Falls and a dramatic fight scene in which Bond fends off the metal-toothed hitman Jaws atop a cable car at Rio de Janeiro's Sugarloaf Mountain .