The 1596 map by Jan Huygen van Linschoten showed "BEACH" and "LOCACH", projecting from the map's southern edge as the northernmost parts of the "Terra Australis" long hypothesized by Europeans. An encounter by the Dutch vessel "Eendracht", commanded by Dirk Hartog, with Shark Bay, Western Australia in 1616, appeared to confirm that land existed where the maps showed "Beach"; Hartog named the wider landmass "Eendrachtsland", after his ship. In August 1642, the Council of the Dutch East India Company – evidently still relying on Linschoten's map – despatched Abel Tasman and Franchoijs Jacobszoon Visscher on a voyage of exploration, of which one of the objects was to obtain knowledge of "all the totally unknown provinces of Beach".