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The movie's meteorite cul-de-sac circular crater real-life geographical location in Morocco, where the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. desert lair set is set (via digital composition), is called "Gara Medouar" (Gara de Medouar), and is nicknamed "The Portuguese Prison". This movie's storyline states that the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Headquarters is situated inside a meteorite crater created from the "The Kartenhoff Meteor". The crater in the real world, is situated in the Errachidia Providence in the area of the town Rissani, Morocco, about 10 to 12 kilometers (six to seven and a half miles) west of that town, and about 15 kilometers (nine and a half miles) from its center, with Rissani being located near the oasis Sahara Desert town of Erfoud, which is one of the three major Moroccan shooting locations for this movie. Such productions as La mummia (1999) and La mummia - Il ritorno (2001) (both of which starred Daniel Craig's wife Rachel Weisz), where the crater portrayed the fictional Egyptian Valley of the Kings' City of the Dead "Hamunaptra"; as well as Prince of Persia - Le sabbie del tempo (2010), The Sleeper's Wife (2010), and Secret of the Sahara (1988), also having shot there. Geological opinion has stated that it is neither an extinct volcano (as per the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. lair in Agente 007 - Si vive solo due volte (1967), which was actually a set built out on the backlot at Pinewood Studios anyway, which cost about one million dollars, nor a volcanic caldera, nor a meteorite crater, nor a meteorite impact crater, nor a meteorite impact related crater, but is actually what is termed an "erosional crater". Coincidentally, former James Bond Sir Sean Connery appeared in a movie called Meteor (1979). "The Maverick Guide to Morocco" (1999) book by Susan Searight says of Gara Medouar: "the whole thing is a vast natural fortress, protected by this massive wall of carefully quarried stone. The function and date of the monument are uncertain, but it was possibly a refuge for families fleeing from Sijilmassa in times of trouble". According to the Wikipedia website, "Sijilmasa (Sijilmassa, Sidjilmasa, Sidjilmassa, and Sigilmassa) was a medieval Moroccan city and trade entrepôt at the northern edge of the Sahara Desert in Morocco. The ruins of the town lie for five miles (eight kilometers) along the River Ziz, in the Tafilalt oasis, near the town of Rissani. The town's history was marked by several successive invasions by the Berber dynasties. Up until the fourteenth century, as the northern terminus for the western trans-Sahara trade route, it was one of the most important trade centres in the Maghreb, during the Middle Ages." The Ardeth Bay website states: "It is an extinct volcano, where one can find etrilobites and anmmonites. Nowadays, the volcano is part of a desert rally for Morocco women."

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