Taku may refer to:
Places
North America
* the
Taku River
The Taku River ( Lingít: ''T'aaḵu Héeni'') is a river running from British Columbia, Canada, to the northwestern coast of North America, at Juneau, Alaska. The river basin spreads across . The Taku is a very productive salmon river and its ...
, in Alaska and British Columbia
** Fort Taku, also known as
Fort Durham
Fort Durham, also known as Fort Taku, Taku, Taco, and Tacouw, is an archaeological site near Taku Harbor, Alaska, within the limits of Juneau City and Borough and Tongass National Forest. It was one of three Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) posts s ...
and as Taku, a former fort of the Hudson's Bay Company near the mouth of the Taku River
** the
Taku Glacier
Taku Glacier (Tlingit language, Lingít: ''T'aaḵú Ḵwáan Sít'i'') is a tidewater glacier located in Taku Inlet in the U.S. state of Alaska, just southeast of the city of Juneau, Alaska, Juneau. Recognized as the deepest and thickest alpine t ...
, in Alaska near Juneau
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Taku Towers
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 Al ...
, in Alaska, near Juneau
**
Taku Harbor, in Alaska, near Juneau
**
Taku Inlet, in Alaska
** the
Taku Plateau
The Taku Plateau is a sub-plateau of the Stikine Plateau in the far northwestern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It lies to the south of the Teslin Plateau, part of the Yukon Plateau and to the southeast of the Yukon Plateau's other major s ...
, in British Columbia
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Taku Arm
Tagish Lake is a lake in Yukon and northern British Columbia, Canada. The lake is more than long and about wide.
It has two arms, the Taku Arm in the east which is very long and mostly in British Columbia and Windy Arm in the west, mostly in ...
of Tagish Lake in British Columbia
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Taku, British Columbia, a locality on Tagish Lake
Asia
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Taku Forts
The Taku Forts or Dagu Forts, also called the Peiho Forts are forts located by the Hai River (Peiho River) estuary in the Binhai New Area, Tianjin, in northeastern China. They are located southeast of the Tianjin urban center.
History
The ...
, forts on the south bank of the Hai He, in Tanggu District, Tianjin municipality, in northeastern China
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Taku, Saga
is a city located in Saga Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. The city was founded on May 1, 1954 through the merger of several towns and villages. As of March 1, 2017, the city has an estimated population of 19,202 and a population densi ...
, a city in Saga prefecture on the island of Kyūshū, Japan
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Taku, India, a town in India
Oceania
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Taku, Kiribati, a village in Kiribati.
Peoples
* The
Taku people
The Taku are an Alaskan Native people, a ''ḵwáan'' or geographic subdivision of the Tlingit, known in their own language as the ''Tʼaaḵu Ḵwáan'' or "Geese Flood Upriver Tribe". The Taku lived along the northwestern coast of North Ame ...
, an Alaska Native group, who are a ''kwaan'' or tribe of the Tlingit
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Taku River Tlingit First Nation
The Taku River Tlingit First Nation are the band government of the Inland Tlingit in far northern British Columbia, Canada and also in Yukon. They comprise two ''ḵwaan'' (tribes) of the Tlingit people, who are otherwise coastal, the ''Áa Tlei ...
, government in British Columbia
People
Surname
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Moses Taku Moshe ben Chasdai Taku (Hebrew: ר' משה בן חסדאי תאקו) ( fl. 1250–1290 CE) was a 13th-century Tosafist from Tachov, Bohemia. Despite his own seemingly mystical orientation, Rabbi Taku is controversially known to have been an opponen ...
, a rabbi, 13th-century Tosafist from Bohemia
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Afrim Taku
Afrim Taku (born 4 August 1989) is an Albanian professional footballer.
Club career Early career
Taku began his football career as a 13-year-old when he joined the KF Tirana academy, where he progressed through the ranks before eventually bein ...
(born 1989), an Albanian soccer player
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Akwo Tarh Ayuk Taku
Akwo Tarh Ayuk Taku (born 7 December 1992) is a Cameroonian Association football, footballer who plays as a midfielder.
Career
Taku first arrived in Europe from Cameroon as a 14-year-old, joining an academy in Germany. He then returned to Camer ...
(born 1992), Cameroonian soccer player
Nickname
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Ta-ku
Regan Mathews, better known by his stage name Ta-ku, is an Australian musician, producer and photographer.
Life and career
Mathews was born and raised in the Australian city of Perth. He is half- Filipino, half-Māori. Mathews attended high ...
, an Australian musician
*Taku, a nickname for
Takuma Sato
, nicknamed "Taku", is a Japanese professional racing driver. Sato is a two time winner of the Indianapolis 500, having won the event in 2017 and 2020. He was the first Asian driver to win the Indianapolis 500, and the twentieth driver to win th ...
* Taku, a nickname for people named Takudzwa, Takura or Takunda in the
Shona language
Given name
"Taku" is a Japanese male given name.
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese snowboarder
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese recording artist and percussionist for
Fleetwood Mac
*, Japanese screenwriter
*
Taku Morishita
is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 9-dan. He is a former director of the Japanese Shogi Association, and is currently serving as an executive director.
He was the challenger for the Meijin title in 1995 against Yoshiharu Habu. H ...
, Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese freestyle skier
*, Japanese basketball coach
*
Taku Sugimoto
Taku Sugimoto, born December 20, 1965, in Tokyo, is a Japanese guitarist.
He initially gained attention in the late 1990s for his restrained, melodic playing, unusual in the world of free improvisation. Critic Bruce Russell describes this era o ...
, Japanese guitarist
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Taku Takahashi
is a Japanese hip hop recording artist, DJ and record producer who debuted in 1997 as a record producer of the hip hop group M-Flo. The group rose to prominence in the early 2000s, with hit singles such as "How You Like Me Now?" and "Come Agai ...
(born 1974), one half of the hip-hop duo M-Flo
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese politician
Transportation
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HMS ''Taku'' (1900), the former German-built (at
Schichau-Werke
The Schichau-Werke (F. Schichau, Maschinen- und Lokomotivfabrik, Schiffswerft und Eisengießerei GmbH) was a German engineering works and shipyard based in Elbing, Germany (now Elbląg, Poland) on the Frisches Haff (Vistula Lagoon) of then- Eas ...
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
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HMS ''Taku'' (N38), a 1939 British T class submarine
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MV ''Taku'', a 1963 vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway System
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USC&GS ''Taku'', an 1898 United States Coast Guard and Geodetic Survey ship
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Taku Station
is a railway station on the Karatsu Line operated by JR Kyushu located in Taku, Saga Prefecture, Japan.
Lines
The station is served by the Karatsu Line and is located 15.2 km from the starting point of the line at .
Station layout
Th ...
, a railway station in Taku, Saga, Japan
Animals
*
Taku (whale)
Orcas, or killer whales, are large predatory cetaceans that were first captured live and displayed in exhibitions in the 1960s. They soon became popular attractions at public aquariums and aquatic theme parks due to their intelligence, train ...
, an Orca (killer whale) that once lived at SeaWorld
* The Fijian name for the
Hawksbill turtle
The hawksbill sea turtle (''Eretmochelys imbricata'') is a critically endangered sea turtle belonging to the family Cheloniidae. It is the only extant species in the genus ''Eretmochelys''. The species has a global distribution, that is lar ...
Other uses
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Battle of Taku Forts (disambiguation) The Battle of Taku Forts may refer to:
* Battle of Taku Forts (1858), an unsuccessful Chinese defense during the Second Opium War
* Battle of Taku Forts (1859), a successful Chinese defense during the Second Opium War
* Battle of Taku Forts (1860), ...
, several battles in China
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Takuu language
Takuu (also Mortlock, Taku, Tau, or Tauu) is a Polynesian languages, Polynesian language from the Ellicean languages, Ellicean group spoken on the atoll of Takuu, near Bougainville Island. It is very closely related to Nukumanu language, Nukuma ...
or "Taku", a Polynesian language (ISO 639-3:nho)
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9574 Taku, an asteroid
See also
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Taku High School, in Taku, Saga, Japan
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Naka-Taku Station
is a railway station on the Karatsu Line operated by JR Kyushu located in Taku, Saga Prefecture, Japan.
Lines
The station is served by the Karatsu Line and is located 13.6 km from the starting point of the line at .
Station layout
Th ...
, a railway station in Taku, Saga, Japan
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Higashi-Taku Station
is a railway station on the Karatsu Line operated by JR Kyushu located in Taku, Saga Prefecture, Japan.
Lines
The station is served by the Karatsu Line and is located 10.6 km from the starting point of the line at .
Station layout
T ...
, a railway station in Taku, Saga, Japan
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Takou, Burkina Faso, a village
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Takuu Atoll
Takuu, formerly known as Tauu and also known as Takuu Mortlock or Marqueen Islands, is a small, isolated atoll off the east coast of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea.
Geography
Takuu lies about 250 km to the northeast of Kieta, capital of ...
, sometimes written as "''Takū''"
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