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Arecibo Radio Telescope

former radio telescope in the municipality of Arecibo, Puerto Rico

🇵🇷 Puerto Rico · 18.3442, -66.7528

Arecibo Radio Telescope is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikipedia names it for 1 more.

“It was used as a filming location in the films GoldenEye (1995), Species (1995), and Contact (1997) (based on Carl Sagan's novel of the same name, which also featured the observatory), The Losers (2010), as the climatic battleground against Ultron in Season 3 of Avengers Assemble, and in The X-Files episode "Little Green Men".”
GoldenEye (1995) · Wikipedia

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Arecibo Radio Telescope
Photo: Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Movies filmed at Arecibo Radio Telescope

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Arecibo Radio Telescope as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

  • Species 1995
    “Other locations included the Santa Monica Pier and the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico.” Wikipedia

Set here, per Arecibo Radio Telescope’s own Wikipedia article

Works this page’s own Wikipedia article places here. Nothing was filmed — each of these is drawn or rendered — and as above, no pin and no download entry.

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Frequently asked questions

What was filmed at Arecibo Radio Telescope?

2 productions are recorded as filmed at Arecibo Radio Telescope, including GoldenEye (1995) and Species (1995). 1 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed at Arecibo Radio Telescope?

GoldenEye (1995), covered by 68 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Arecibo Radio Telescope?

Arecibo Radio Telescope is in Puerto Rico, at 18.3442, -66.7528.

What other filming locations are near Arecibo Radio Telescope?

Arecibo Observatory, Arecibo, Castillo Serrallés, Ponce and 2 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz), CC BY-SA 4.0.