Hope Place
Coordinates: 51°50′42″S 59°01′05″W / 51.845°S 59.018°W
Hope Place (known in Spanish as Valle Esperanza) was a small settlement in Lafonia in East Falkland. It was set up in 1846, by Samuel Lafone, a Montevideo merchant, on the south shores of Brenton Loch. It was mainly populated by Uruguayan gauchos brought in from continental South America.[1] The area is now abandoned.
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- East Falkland
- Populated places on East Falkland
- History of the Falkland Islands
- 1846 establishments in the Falkland Islands
- Falkland Islands geography stubs