To access the final published version, download the pdf file . Consequently many southern surveys at radio wavelengths have included the Clouds. Less luminous Cloud sources such as planetary nebulae and most pulsars are below the present limits of detection. Observations which clearly separate SNRs from nearby H II regions and have sufficient sensitivity to reveal faint features will assist in the study of this anomaly. Similarly the comparison of detailed radio images of the H II regions with images made at other wavelengths may provide more accurate estimates of the recent rate of star formation.
Various catalogues are in preparation.
The present survey has better sensitivity and angular resolution and the final image contains many more sources with over a thousand exceeding a flux density of 7 mJy at 843 MHz. The remaining sources do not possess the radio morphologies or optical and x-ray counterparts that characterise typical H II regions or SNRs. The number of these sources is not significantly in excess of those expected from a background population. Though the sources in the SMC are our primary interest, the background sources do provide a valuable sample of distant extragalactic objects. In Sections 2 and 3, we describe the observations and the data reduction and, in Section 4, we present the images of the survey.