Gadgets and other props from every previous Bond film and stored in Eon Productions ' archives appear in Q 's warehouse in the London Underground . Examples include the jetpack in Thunderball and Rosa Klebb 's poison @-@ tipped shoe in From Russia with Love . Q mentions that the watch he issues Bond is " your 20th , I believe " , a reference to Die Another Day being the 20th Eon @-@ produced Bond film . In London , the Reform Club was used to shoot several places in the film , including the lobby and gallery at the Blades Club , MI6 Headquarters , Buckingham Palace , Green Park , and Westminster . Svalbard , Norway and Jökulsárlón , Iceland were used for the car chase on the ice with additional scenes filmed at Jostedalsbreen National Park , Norway and RAF Little Rissington , Gloucestershire ; Manston Airport in Kent was used for the scenes involving the Antonov cargo plane scenes . The scene in which Bond surfs the wave created by Icarus when Graves was attempting to kill Bond was shot on the blue screen . The waves , along with all the glaciers in the scene are computer @-@ generated .