Baffin High Sea

The Labrador Sea lies between the Labrador Peninsula and Greenland and connects north to Baffin Bay through Davis Strait. Broad continental shelves border its deep basin, and winter ice covers much of the surface. Between about 500 BC and 1300 AD, Dorset, Beothuk and Inuit peoples lived along its coasts, and Thule people later replaced the Dorset. The sea is also a major source of North Atlantic Deep Water, a cold current that flows at depth along the western edge of the ocean.