Last month we brought you the chance to name an iceberg (provided you were aged between 3 and 12).

The winning entry came from Max Dolan, age six, who decided the huge floating ice cube should be called … Melting Bob (press release). Other notable entries included Kangaroo Desert, White Fright, Vast Tip and Antarc-Ticker.

In The Times he explains the background to the name: “Because of global warming, ice melts. And it goes up and down in the sea, so it bobs.”

He adds, via the BBC, “It’s huge and cool.”

One question remains to be settled though: is Melting Bob cooler than Mr Splashy Pants?

Image: C19A on March 18 / NOAA