Recent H i surveys of the Large Magellanic Cloud ( LMC ) with the Australia Telescope Compact Array ( Kim et al .
1998 ) and the Parkes multibeam receiver ( Staveley-Smith et al .
2003 ) have focussed , respectively , on the small-scale ( < 20 \arcmin ) structure of the interstellar medium ( ISM ) and the large-scale ( > 1 \arcdeg ) structure of the galaxy .
Using a Fourier-plane technique , we have merged both data sets providing an accurate set of images of the LMC sensitive to structure on scales of 15 pc ( for an LMC distance of 50 kpc ) upwards .
The spatial dynamic range ( 2.8 orders of magnitude ) , velocity resolution ( 1.649 km s ^ { -1 } ) , brightness temperature sensitivity ( 2.4 K ) and column density sensitivity ( 8.9 \times 10 ^ { 18 } cm ^ { -2 } per 1.649 km s ^ { -1 } channel ) allow for the studies of phenomena ranging from the galaxy-wide interaction of the LMC with its close neighbours to the small-scale injection of energy from supernovae and stellar associations into the ISM of the LMC .
This paper presents the merged data and the size spectrum of H i clouds which is similar to the typical size spectrum of the holes and shells in the H i distribution .