title: Breakwater
text: # Breakwater
  
  Breakwater may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  * Breakwater, Victoria, a suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia
  * Breakwater Island, Antarctica
  * Breakwater Islands, Nunavut, Canada
  * Breakwater School, a Portland, Maine, pre-school and elementary school founded in 1956
  
  ## Arts and entertainment
  
  * Breakwater (band), a funk and soul band from the 1970s
  * Breakwater (album), a 1988 album by Lennie Gallant
  * Breakwater (film), an upcoming film starring Dermot Mulroney
  * The Breakwater, an alternative name for the 1670 painting Storm Off a Sea Coast by Jacob van Ruisdael
  
  ## Other
  
  * USS Breakwater (SP-681), a United States Navy patrol vessel, minesweeper, and tug in commission from 1917 to 1920
  * Breaking the water or water breaking, a term for the rupture of membranes during pregnancy
  