Winslow Reef is a submerged
coral
Corals are marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically form compact colonies of many identical individual polyps. Coral species include the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and ...
reef
A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral or similar relatively stable material, lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water. Many reefs result from natural, abiotic processes— deposition of sand, wave erosion planing down rock o ...
of the southern
Cook Islands
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, located northwest of
Rarotonga, at . It is a shallow platform reef. No major expeditions to explore Winslow Reef have taken place.
Literature
World Atlas of Coral Reefs, by Mark D. Spalding, Corinna Ravilious, Edmund P. Green, University Presses of California, September 2001, ,
References
Reefs of the Cook Islands
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