Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Hendrick Brouwer (1580 - 1643) was a Dutch sea explorer. In 1611, Brouwer found a better route from South Africa to Java, sailing eastward until reaching the right longitude, then turning north to Batavia. He is thus credited for discovering the Roaring Forties. In 1643, he travelled to Chile to fight the Spanish and look for gold. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.