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Goldeneye is the original name of James Bond novelist Ian Fleming's estate on Oracabessa bay on the northern coastline of Jamaica. He purchased land adjacent to the renowned Golden Clouds estate in 1946 and built his home on the edge of a cliff overlooking a private beach. Constructed from Fleming's sketch, the modest three bedroom structure was fitted with wooden jalousie windows. A pool made swimming convenient.〔() Description of house〕 Fleming's visitors at Goldeneye included actors, musicians and filmmakers.〔() Fleming's celebrity guests〕 The property now operates as Goldeneye Hotel and Resort, an upmarket retreat consisting of Fleming's main house and several cottages. ==History== In spite of its obvious proximity to Golden Cloud, Fleming claimed a number of origins for the name Goldeneye, including Carson McCullers's 1941 novel, ''Reflections in a Golden Eye'' and Operation Goldeneye, a Second World War era contingency plan Fleming had developed in case of a Nazi invasion of Gibraltar through Spain. Fleming joined ''The Sunday Times'' in 1946, for which he oversaw the paper's worldwide network of correspondents. He negotiated a contract whereby he could spend January and February of each year at Goldeneye. On 17 February 1952 James Bond appeared in the first Bond novel, ''Casino Royale''.〔(Jamaica (1946 - 1964) | http://www.ianfleming.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=219 )〕 For the next fourteen years Fleming wrote all his Bond stories there. A number of the Bond movies, including ''Dr. No'' and ''Live and Let Die'', were filmed near the estate. In 1956 British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and his wife Clarissa spent a month at Goldeneye after Eden's health collapsed in the wake of the Suez Crisis. The attendant publicity helped to boost Fleming's writing career. In 1976, 12 years after Ian Fleming's death, the property was sold to reggae musician Bob Marley. A year later he sold the estate to Island Records founder Chris Blackwell. In 1995 ''GoldenEye'' became the title of the seventeenth James Bond film, the first to star Pierce Brosnan. The estate is located in the Oracabessa Bay Fish Sanctuary, established in 2011 to protect the area's marine ecosystem.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Oracabessa Fish Sanctuary )〕 It is adjacent to James Bond Beach. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Goldeneye (estate)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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