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Introduction
A rather complete review of recent work related to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has been given by Westerlund (1997). The overall distribution of the neutral hydrogen gas in the LMC and its relation to the SMC and the Galaxy has been described in the papers of McGee & Milton (1966), Rohlfs et al. (1984) and Luks and Rohlfs (1992). The neutral hydrogen (HI) gas in the LMC has been surveyed with Australia Telescope Compact Array
(ATCA) at 
21 cm. Compared to previous surveys of McGee & Milton (1966), Rohlfs et al. (1984) and Luks & Rohlfs (1992) using the Parkes telescope, the spatial resolution of new survey is much higher - 1' compared with 14' - 15'. We compare the large scale distribution of HI in the LMC with the result of a recent H
survey, taken with a camera lens mounted on the 16-inch telescope at Siding Spring Observatory. The H images cover the same area as the HI mosaic survey and has a spatial resolution of 20'', slightly better than the HI resolution. These two surveys combined offer a unique probe into the detailed relationship between the ionized and atomic phases in the interstellar medium of the LMC for the first time. The HI observations are summarised in §2, the H observations are summarised in §3 and results of correlations are given in §4.
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