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Coordinates:51°50′42″S59°01′05″W/ 51.845°S 59.018°W/-51.845; -59.018
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51°50′42″S59°01′05″W/ 51.845°S 59.018°W/-51.845; -59.018

Location of Hope Place on the Islands
Falklands gauchos havingmateat Hope Place - Saladero,East Falkland.Watercolour by Dale, manager of Hope Place in the 1850s.

Hope Place(known in Spanish asValle Esperanza) was a small settlement inLafoniainEast Falkland.It was set up in 1846, bySamuel Lafone,a British-bornMontevideomerchant, on the south shores ofBrenton Loch.It was mainly populated byUruguayangauchosbrought in from continentalSouth America.[1]The area is now abandoned.

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  1. ^Falkland Islands Timeline: A Chronology of events in the history of the Falkland IslandsArchived2007-10-06 at theWayback Machine


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