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 brought in from continental South America. Falkland Islands Timeline: A Chronology of events in the history of the Falkland Islands The area is now abandoned.
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