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Skydiving to Gibraltar (The Living Daylights)

002, 004, and 007 skydive towards the Rock of Gibraltar, as seen in The Living Daylights (1987).

Gibraltar is a small British Overseas Territory located on a headland, near the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula. Gibraltar has an area of 6.7 km2 (2.6 sq mi) and is bordered to the north by Spain, which continues to lay claim to it. Morocco is also a short distance away, across the Straits of Gibraltar. Gibraltar of great strategic importance, having a good harbour, and being sited at the gateway to the Mediterranean from the Atlantic Ocean. Despite its location, Gibraltar has a British feel to it, retaining red postboxes and British style police, and of course the English language.

The landscape is dominated by the Rock of Gibraltar to the west of which is a densely populated city area, home to over 30,000 people, primarily Gibraltarians.[1]

Due to its size, being bounded by the sea at one end, and a mountain at the other, Gibraltar's airport also enjoys some notoriety as a spot for landing. It crosses public streets which have traffic lights to let the planes past. In the Living Daylights, it can be seen near the beginning, with M's Hercules aircraft parked on the runway.

Appearances[]

The Living Daylights[]

The region was featured in the pre-credit sequence of the 1987 James Bond film The Living Daylights, in which three 00 agents are tasked with penetrating radar installations atop the Rock of Gibraltar as part of a Ministry of Defence training exercise. Their play opponents are the SAS, but an assassin posing as a 00 agent takes part and starts killing the participants, forcing James Bond to act and eliminate the killer.

Win, Lose or Die[]

The final conflict of the novel takes place in Gibraltar. After having rescued the three world leaders that were held hostage aboard HMS Invincible by BAST, intelligence finds that the BAST leader, Bassam Baradj is at a hotel there. Bond and Beatrice Maria da Ricci end up chasing Baradj.

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Trivia[]

Gibraltar Apes

A glimpse of Gibraltar's simian population from The Living Daylights

Gibraltar is also famous as the only part of Europe to have its own native apes. These make a couple of brief cameos in the film.

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References[]

  1. Statistics Office (2009). Abstract of Statistics 2009. Statistics Office of the Government of Gibraltar. The civilian population includes Gibraltarian residents, other British residents (including the wives and families of UK-based servicemen, but not the servicemen themselves) and non-British residents. Visitors and transients are not included.
    In 2009, this broke down into 23,907 native-born citizens, 3,129 UK British citizens and 2,395 others, making a total population of 29,431. On census night, there were 31,623 people present in Gibraltar.

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