The name means
literally leaning mount. It is really a huge rock
split  in two; the smaller half has slid down
and the remaining one appears now to be leaning.
Though Kao Ping-gan is a very small island, Khao
Tapoo or James Bond Island, is in a little bay of Khao
Ping-Gan where visiting boats pull up.  Tapoo means nail, and this shoreless rock
projects up from the sea as its name implies flat and
wide at the top, and very narrow at waterline. It is a
striking sight. And the island became more famous
after the James Bond adventure, The Man with the
Golden Gun, was partly filmed here. |
much like floating through a giant
reception hall with two doors. 
A cave with stalagmites and
stalactites, where a small stepped waterfall of
regular descent adds to the beauty, is the island's
salient feature. 
has dated back no less than 3,000 years.
Low on the mountain walls just above the tide line of
this shore less island, they were presumably drawn by
voyagers long ago who took refuge there during storms.
The island lies on the way to Ko Panyee. Also of
interest in Phang-Nga Bay National Park are the
mangrove forests and swamps, cut by twisting channels,
that line the mainland shores