Big Koran Angelfish – Pyramid Hill

The species choice is worth explaining. The Koran angelfish – the semicircle angelfish – is a tropical reef fish whose juveniles carry dramatic blue and white markings that some observers have read as Arabic script, which is where the common name comes from. It is a genuinely beautiful animal and completely alien to northern Victoria.

That dislocation is characteristic of the whole Games dispersal. These sculptures were made for a stadium display, not for the towns that received them, and they ended up wherever a council said yes. The dolphin fish went to Tooradin on Western Port, the big-eyed scad to Edenhope in the Wimmera, the leatherback turtle to an aquatic centre at Narre Warren, and this to a country pool.

A swimming pool is a defensible home. Pyramid Hill is a small Loddon Valley town, the pool is a seasonal facility of real importance to a district that gets very hot, and a spectacular tropical fish beside it is more cheerful than any signage would be.

The record marks access as restricted because the pool is seasonal.

No one recorded the height and the installation date.