[[Imago:TakuuVillage.jpg|600px|thumb|[[Nukutoa]] in Taku, anno [[2000]]. Pictura ab Hamish McDonald facta]]
'''Taku,''' recte '''Takū''' et '''Takuu,''' male '''Takuʻu,''' olim '''Mortlock Insulae,''' est parvum remotumque [[atoluatollum]] ante orientalem [[Bougainville Insula|Bougainville Insulae]] oram in [[Papua Nova Guinea]].
==Geographia==
AtoluAtollum consistit in fere tredecim insulis minimis ad orientem et una inter septentriones et occasum solis spectanti. Taku Insula ipsa est australissima maximaque ex insulis in latere atolusatolli oriens; plurimi autem insulani in [[Nukutoa]], parva insula vicina, habitant.
[[Imago:Kilinailau.JPG|thumb|Taku de caelo visum. Pictura ab [[NASA]] facta.]] <!--
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Taku lies about 250 km to the northeast of Kieta, capital of Bougainville, at the intersection of two shifting [[tectonic plate]]s, which are causing the atoll to sink. Its position is {{coord|4|45|S|157|2|E|}}. -->
Insulae atolusatolli sunt humillimae, non plus quam duo metra super aestum altum.<!-- Their existence is under threat from two causes: first, because the tectonic plate on which the atoll sits is sinking; second, because the rise in sea level due to [[global warming]]. The combinations of these causes makes local sea levels rise at a rate alleged (by whom?) to be 20 centimeters per year. In 2005, Richard M. Moyle, a lecturer at Auckland University, wrongly predicted that the sea's advance would extinguish the atoll's ability to sustain life within three years (i.e., by 2008): "A couple of years ago, I would have said five. Takuu families living elsewhere in Papua New Guinea will take in as many as they can, but with no single resettlement location, I can't see Takuu continuing to function as a community" (Wane 2005:10).-->
