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Who was the first European explorer of the upper Yellow River?
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Yellow River
The Yellow River (Huang He) basin and the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) basin and their drainage networks.
The first European to explore the upper reaches of the Yellow River was the Russian traveler Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky, who conducted his explorations in 1879 and 1884.1