Hope Place

Hope Place

Hope Place was a small settlement in Lafonia in East Falkland. It was set up in 1846, by Samuel Lafone, a Montevideo merchant, on the south shores of Brenton Loch. It was mainly populated by gauchos brought in from continental South America. [ [http://www.falklands.info/history/timeline.html Falkland Islands Timeline: A Chronology of events in the history of the Falkland Islands] ] . The area is now abandoned.

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