Kennar Valley is a small valley, ice free except for a lobe of ice marginal to
Taylor Glacier at the mouth, located west of Finger Mountain in the
Quartermain Mountains of
Victoria Land, Antarctica. The name appears to be first used on a 1961 New Zealand
Lands and Survey Department map compiled from
New Zealand field surveys, 1957–60, and
U.S. Navy aerial photographs of that period. It was possibly named after Thomas Kennar,
Royal Navy,
Petty Officer on the
Discovery during the
British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, led by
R.F. Scott. In November 1903, Kennar and William J. Weller accompanied
Hartley T. Ferrar in the first geological reconnaissance of the Quartermain Mountains.