In that first scene, Bond, played by Sean Connery, appears while playing Baccarat Chemin de Fer at a London casino where he exchanges innuendos with Sylvia Trench (played by Eunice Grayson — the first real Bond girl) before he has to abandon the game (the cards, not the seduction) and head off to Jamaica.

It was to be the first of an incredible 379,826 kilometres (approximately) he’s racked up travelling to almost every corner of the globe in 22 subsequent films (we haven’t included the new movie, Spectre).

That would almost get him to the moon, which is 384,000km away. (If you were to take in his travels in Spectre, he’s clocked up enough to get there.).

But there is one glaring omission.

Bond has never been to Australia.

See the map below and use our interactive above to follow Bond’s travels.

“That’s a terrible mistake,” veteran producer Michael G. Wilson told Vicky Roach earlier this year. “Mea culpa. As soon as we can get a great sequence going we will get there.”

However, legendary Bond producer Barbara Broccoli has said while she would love to film Bond in Oz, there is one stumbling block — this country’s lack of real bad guys.

“We’d love to film in Australia we really would, we just have to get a story there but I guess there are no real bad villains in Australia,” Broccoli has said.

And while the British agent has got around on nearly every form of wheeled transport a fleet of screenwriters can imagine, he’s never ridden a bicycle.

Perhaps a chase involving Malvern Stars round the Opera House or past Uluru could be on the agenda for the next Bond instalment.

Until then, it’s worth recounting some of the places Bond has been.

When the series began, the travel budget was relatively modest; Bond flew from London to Kingston, Jamaica then darted around the island — staying true to Ian Fleming’s book.

As the films grew, so did the budgets, and 007’s horizons expanded.

While Caribbean destinations regularly featured, Bond made more forays through Europe (usually to the Alps, or picturesque parts of the Mediterranean), then Asia and Africa.

The distances travelled slowly grew too.

To get an idea of how Bond rarely stays still, take a look at his travel itinerary for Casino Royale.

He kicks off in Islamabad and is called to Prague, 500km away, where he kills a bloke, then heads off to Madagascar — an 8300km journey — to find and kill another bloke. From Madagascar, it’s back to London — 9000km — only to be told he must go to Nassau in the Bahamas (a favourite haunt), which entails a 7000km flight.

After a return trip to Miami (a mere 600km return from Nassau) Bond heads to Montenegro — 8681km away — before popping down to Lake Como in Italy (about 865km) and whizzing over to Venice and back (just shy of 700km return). That’s 40,262km.

Phew ... it’s tiring just reading back over that.

About as tiring as keeping up with the many modes of transport Bond has used throughout the films.

There’s the cars of course: the iconic Aston Martin DB5, a flirtation with BMW and Audi and many others — Chevys, an Alpine Sunbeam, Bentleys, Rollers, Mercedes, a few Fords and the famous submersible Lotus.

He’s also a dab hand at other forms of transport, piloting everything from gyrocopters, mini submarines, powerboats, hovercraft, tanks ... even a jet pack. In recent films, he’s taken to using myriad motorcycles.

All we need now is for a Tour de France storyline to get him on to a bicycle, though getting the usually impeccably-dressed Bond into Lycra may be a stretch.