Winslow Reef is an underwater feature of the Phoenix Islands, Republic of Kiribati, located 200 km NNW of McKean Island at 01°36′S 174°57′W. 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. The Phoenix Islands are a sparsely populated island chain in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Gilbert Islands and west of the Line Islands. ... NNW may refer to: National Nurses Week, the week of May 6 through May 12 (Florence Nightingales birthday) proclaimed by Richard Nixon in 1974 as a period for Americans to recognize nurses service and contributions Neural network, an interconnected group of neurons or artificial neurons North-northwest or Nor...

It is not to be confused with Winslow Reef in the Cook Islands at 20°38′S 160°56′W.

See also: Winslow Reef Seamount in in Seamount Catalog A seamount is a mountain rising from the seafloor that does not reach to the surface of the ocean. ...

Literary mention: 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. Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. ...

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Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Vol,2 Part V [1]