Kennar Valley is a small valley

Valley

In geology, a valley or dale is a depression with predominant extent in one direction. A very deep river valley may be called a canyon or gorge.The terms U-shaped and V-shaped are descriptive terms of geography to characterize the form of valleys...

, ice free except for a lobe of ice marginal to Taylor Glacier

Taylor Glacier

The Taylor Glacier is an Antarctic glacier about long, flowing from the plateau of Victoria Land into the western end of Taylor Valley, north of the Kukri Hills, south of the Asgard Range...

 at the mouth, located west of Finger Mountain

Finger Mountain

Finger Mountain is a topographical formation in interior Alaska. Not actually a mountain, it is a wide broad hill, with an altitude of around 1312 ft.. It is named for Finger Rock, a distinctive granite protrusion on its surface. Finger Mountain Wayside is a partially-maintained pullout along...

 in the Quartermain Mountains

Quartermain Mountains

Quartermain Mountains is a group of exposed mountains, about 20 miles long, typical of ice-free features of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, located south of Taylor Glacier and bounded by Finger Mountain, Mount Handsley, Mount Feather and Tabular Mountain; also including Knobhead, Terra...

, Victoria Land

Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...

. The name appears to be first used on a 1961 New Zealand Lands and Survey Department map compiled from New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 field surveys, 1957–60, and U.S. Navy aerial photographs of that period. Presumably named after Thomas Kennar, Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

, Petty Officer

Petty Officer

A petty officer is a non-commissioned officer in many navies and is given the NATO rank denotion OR-6. They are equal in rank to sergeant, British Army and Royal Air Force. A Petty Officer is superior in rank to Leading Rate and subordinate to Chief Petty Officer, in the case of the British Armed...

 on the Discovery during the Discovery expedition, 1901–04, led by R.F. Scott. In November 1903, Kennar and William J. Weller (Mount Weller

Mount Weller

Mount Weller is a mountain, 1,080 m, standing west of Auster Glacier and 2 nautical miles east of Reference Peak in Enderby Land. It was plotted from air photos taken by ANARE in 1956 and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for G.E. Weller, a meteorologist at Mawson Station...

, q.v.) accompanied Hartley T. Ferrar

Hartley T. Ferrar

Hartley Travers Ferrar was a geologist who accompanied Captain Scott's first Antarctic expedition.-Biography:Ferrar born in Dalkey, near Dublin in 1879, and moved to Durban, South Africa at an early age with his parents...

in the first geological reconnaissance of Quartermain Mountains.