Winslow Reef is a submerged

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of the southern

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, located northwest of

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, 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

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