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 References East Falkland Populated places on East Falkland History of the Falkland Islands 1846 establishments in the Falkland Islands