 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.For long it had been thought that a Perry Winslow (1815-1890), Capt.of the Nantucket whaler "Phoenix", was its discoverer in 1851 and that the name of his ship also became attached to the entire group of islands.