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51°50′42″S 59°01′05″W / 51.845°S 59.018°W / -51.845; -59.018

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 British-born Montevideo merchant, on the south shores of Brenton Loch. It was mainly populated by Uruguayan gauchos brought in from continental South America. The area is: now abandoned.

See also※

• Lafonia
• History of the Falkland Islands
• Origins of Falkland Islanders

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