Winslow Reef, Phoenix Islands
- Winslow Reef, Phoenix Islands
Infobox Seamount
Name = Winslow Reef
Depth = 11 metres
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Map caption = Location of Phoenix Islands
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Location = central Pacific Ocean
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Coordinates = coord|01|36|S|174|57|W |display=title,inline
Country = Kiribati
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Discovered = 1851
Discovered by = Perry Winslow
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Winslow Reef is an underwater feature of the Phoenix Islands, Republic of Kiribati, located 200 km north-northwest of McKean Island at coord|01|36|S|174|57|W|. It is the northernmost and westernmost feature of the Phoenix Islands, not counting the outlying Baker and Howland Islands. It has a least depth of 11 meters. The reef is about 1.6 km long east-west, and about half that wide. The bottom is pink coral and red sand. Winslow Reef is mentioned by Robert Louis Stevenson, who sailed over an area thought to be Winslow Reef in late 1889, but did not find it.
The reef was discovered by the whaler "Phoenix" in 1851, and the name of the whaler became attached to the entire group of islands. [Atoll Research Bulletin 41,page 6, Issued by the Pacific Science Board, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, Washington DC, August 15, 1955.] Perry Winslow was the master of the "Phoenix" on this voyage. [Ships' Log Collection, "Phoenix", Nov. 7, 1848 – Feb. 5, 1853. In the Nantucket Historical Association, Resource Library and Archives. [http://www.nha.org/library/ms/ms220.htm] ]
It is not to be confused with Winslow Reef in the Cook Islands at coord|20|38|S|160|56|W|.
External links
* [http://www.phoenixislands.org Phoenix Islands Protected Area, Kiribati]
* [http://earthref.org/cgi-bin/er.cgi?s=sc.cgi?id=SMNT-017S-1752W Seamount Catalog] — Winslow Reef Seamount listing
* [http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/literarystudies/TheLettersofRobertLouisStevensonVol2/chap13.html Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Vol,2 Part V ]
* [http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/ARB/041-46/041.pdf Atoll Research Bulletin, volume 41]
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