Hope Place

51.845°S 59.018°W / -51.845; -59.018

Location of Hope Place on the Islands

Falklands gauchos having mate at Hope Place - Saladero, East Falkland. Watercolour by Dale, manager of Hope Place in the 1850s.

Hope Place (known in Spanish as Valle Esperanza, meaning "Hope Valley") was a small settlement in Lafonia in East Falkland. It was set up in 1846, by Samuel Lafone, a British-born 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.

See also

• History of the Falkland Islands
• Origins of Falkland Islanders