Kennar Valley
| Kennar Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Quartermain Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Kennar Valley is a small, apart from one side tongue of the Taylor Glacier, ice-free valley that lies west of Finger Mountain in the Quartermain Mountains of the East Antarctic Victoria Land.
The valley first appeared in 1961 in maps of the New Zealand Lands and Survey Department , which were created by land surveys under New Zealand leadership and with the help of aerial photographs by the United States Navy between 1957 and 1960. It was probably named after the Petty Officer Thomas Kennar (1876-1945) of the Royal Navy , a crew member of the RSS Discovery during the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . In November 1903, Kennar was part of the group that conducted a geological excursion to the Quartermain Mountains as part of this expedition.
Web links
- Kennar Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kennar Valley on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 846 (English).