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
  • Taku, India, a town in India

Oceania

  • Taku, Kiribati, a village in Kiribati.

Peoples

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.

Characters

Transportation

  • HMS Taku (1900), 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

Topics referred to by the same term
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