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The Explorer Hotel is located on 49th Avenue in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. It is an eight-story tall modernist concrete structure built in the mid-1970s. Located on a high outcrop of ground overlooking downtown, it is one of the tallest buildings in the city, and claims to be the largest hotel in Northern Canada; it has also been described as the city's best and grandest. It is owned and operated by Nunastar Properties.〔 Members of three generations of the British royal family—Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip, Prince Charles, and Prince William and his wife Duchess Catherine〔—have stayed at the Explorer on their visits to Yellowknife; it is also a popular destination for tourists who come to the city to see the northern lights. Before the territory's Legislative Assembly had its own building, it often met in the hotel's conference rooms. It underwent renovations in the 1990s, a small expansion in 2008,〔 and in late 2015 the city granted permits for a larger expansion, even as a competing hotel project has been planned for a neighbouring property. ==Building and grounds== The Explorer is located at the northwestern edge of the area of downtown Yellowknife known as New Town, the city's main business district, at the intersection of 48th Street and 49th Avenue. It is on a sharp rise in the land, at an elevation of .〔 On its south and east are developed urban streets in a grid pattern; two blocks to the southeast, at the junction of 48th street and 50th (Franklin) Avenue is the YK Centre, a high-rise that is home to Canada's northernmost enclosed shopping mall. Two blocks to the southwest is the headquarters of the Canadian military's Joint Task Force (North). On the north and west the land is much less developed. A patch of taiga with outcrops of bedrock, typical terrain for Yellowknife and its surroundings, is to the north. On its northwest a bluff descends to a cleared lot awaiting the construction of another hotel and a wetland that gives way to Niven Lake to the north, with a newer residential area beyond. Across 48th is the territorial visitors' centre, with the entrance roads of the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre and Northwest Territories Legislative Building to their west, set amongst more taiga, and Frame Lake to the south.〔 A paved driveway leads north into an unpaved parking lot from 49th. On a slope at the north end of the lot stands inuksuk. The driveway continues through a large paved porte-cochère to a smaller northern parking lot on higher ground.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Explorer Hotel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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