Dataset is comprised of stable isotopes (oxygen and carbon) of benthic foraminifera from sediments from International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 382, Site U1534, South Falkland Sediment Drift. 53.18967 S, 58.76083 W (605 m water depth). The sediment cores were collected from 3 holes using the advanced piston corer onboard RV Joides Resolution from site U1534 between 29/03/2019 and 02/04/2019. Suitable specimens of benthic foraminifera were identified and picked from the >250 micron size fraction sediment at BAS between March 2020 and May 2021. Isotope analysis was carried out between March-August 2021. The data were collected as part of a project aiming to investigate the sensitivity of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation to variability in Pacific-Atlantic connectivity via the ''cold water route''. Dr Victoria Louise Peck was the principle investigator for this project. Funding provided by NERC UKIODP moratorium grant NE/T010908/1 and analytical support from NEIF steering committee application IP-1950-119.

A 9.5 m long gravity core (PS100-198GC) and 44 cm box core (PS100-198BC) were collected from the same location from a water depth of 398 m from the Norske Trough on the inner continental shelf of NE Greenland. The material was collected during cruise PS100 of the RV Polarstern to NE Greenland in 2016 to investigate the interaction between the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) and ocean circulation through the Holocene. The following parameters were measured: GEOTEK Multi-Sensor Core Logger (MSCL, gravity core only, Durham University, DU); foraminiferal faunal analysis (DU) and stable isotopes (oxygen and carbon, measured at the NERC National Environmental Isotope Facility); carbon analysis (box core only, DU); dinoflagellate cysts and other palynomorphs (box core only, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, GEUS); sea ice biomarkers (IP25 and HBI III, box core only, University of Helsinki). This research was supported by the following grants: Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) grant for ship time: AWI_PS100_01; NERC standard grant: NE/N011228/1; NERC National Environmental Isotope Facility grant: IP-1816-0618; NERC Radiocarbon Facility grant: NRCF010001, allocation no. 2113.0418; Independent Research Council Denmark grant to Sofia Ribeiro: 9064-00039B.