Taku

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Taku may refer to:

Places[]

North America[]

• the Taku River, in Alaska and British Columbia
  • Fort Taku, also known as Fort Durham and as Taku, a former fort of the Hudson's Bay Company near the mouth of the Taku River
  • the Taku Glacier, in Alaska near Juneau
  • Taku Towers, in Alaska, near Juneau
  • Taku Harbor, in Alaska, near Juneau
  • Taku Inlet, in Alaska
  • the Taku Plateau, in British Columbia
• Taku Arm of Tagish Lake in British Columbia
  • Taku, British Columbia, a locality on Tagish Lake

Asia[]

• Taku Forts, forts on the south bank of the Hai He, in Tanggu District, Tianjin municipality, in northeastern China
• Taku, Saga, a city in Saga prefecture on the island of Kyūshū, Japan
• , a town in India

Peoples[]

• The Taku people, an Alaska Native group, who are a kwaan or tribe of the Tlingit
• Taku River Tlingit First Nation, government in British Columbia

People[]

Surname[]

• Moses Taku, a rabbi, 13th-century Tosafist from Bohemia
• Afrim Taku (born 1989), an Albanian soccer player
• Akwo Tarh Ayuk Taku (born 1992), Cameroonian soccer player

Nickname[]

• Ta-ku, an Australian musician
• Taku, a nickname for Takuma Sato
• Taku, a nickname for people named Takudzwa, Takura or Takunda in the Shona language

Given name[]

"Taku" is a Japanese male given name.

• Taku Akahoshi (赤星 拓, born 1984), Japanese footballer
• Taku Hiraoka (平岡 卓, born 1995), Japanese snowboarder
• Taku Morinaga (森永 卓, born 1995), Japanese footballer
• Taku Hirano (平野 琢也, born 1973), Japanese recording artist and percussionist for Fleetwood Mac
• Taku Kishimoto (岸本卓), Japanese screenwriter
• Taku Morishita, Japanese shogi player
• Taku Nakanishi (中西 拓, born 1972), Japanese freestyle skier
• Taku Saito (斎藤 卓, born 1979), Japanese basketball coach
• Taku Sugimoto, Japanese guitarist
• Taku Takahashi (born 1974), one half of the hip-hop duo M-Flo
• Taku Ushinohama (牛之濵 拓, born 1992), Japanese footballer
• Taku Watanabe (渡辺 卓, born 1971), Japanese footballer
• Taku Yamamoto (山本 拓, born 1952), Japanese politician

Transportation[]

• , the former German-built (at Schichau-Werke in 1898) Chinese destroyer Hai Lung captured by the British Navy at the Battle of Taku Forts on 17 June 1900 and added to the British Navy; she was sold in October 1916 to be scrapped
• HMS Taku (N38), a 1939 British T class submarine
• MV Taku, a 1963 vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway System
• USC&GS Taku, an 1898 United States Coast Guard and Geodetic Survey ship
• Taku Station, a railway station in Taku, Saga, Japan

Animals[]

• Taku (whale), an Orca (killer whale) that once lived at SeaWorld
• The Fijian name for the Hawksbill turtle

Other uses[]

• Battle of Taku Forts (disambiguation), several battles in China
• Takuu language or "Taku", a Polynesian language (ISO 639-3:nho)
• 9574 Taku, an asteroid

See also[]

• Taku High School, in Taku, Saga, Japan
• Naka-Taku Station, a railway station in Taku, Saga, Japan
• Higashi-Taku Station, a railway station in Taku, Saga, Japan
• Takou, Burkina Faso, a village
• Takuu Atoll, sometimes written as "Takū"
• All pages with titles beginning with Taku

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