It previously contained the Odden ice tongue (or Odden) area, which extended eastward from the main East Greenland ice edge in the vicinity of 72 74 N during the winter and acted as a key winter ice formation area in the Arctic.

For example, a 2004 study by Brad Barber and Terrance Odean of the University of California and Yi Tsung Lee and Yiu Jane Liu at National Chengchi University acquired trade by trade data on individual day traders on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.