Hope Place


[Image:Falkland-Islands-Corrals.png|thumb|300px|Location of Hope Place on the Islands]
Image:Hope-Place.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Falklands gauchos having mate at Hope Place - Saladero, East Falkland. Watercolour by Dale, manager of Hope Place in the 1850s.
Hope Place 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.