  The average of 14 recent measurements of the distance to the Large Magellanic
Cloud (LMC) implies a true modulus of 18.50 +- 0.02 mag, and demonstrates a
trend in the past 2 years of convergence toward a standard value. The distance
indicators reviewed are the red clump, the tip of the red giant branch,
Cepheid, RR Lyrae, and Mira variable stars, cluster main-sequence fitting,
supernova 1987A, and eclipsing binaries. The eclipsing binaries yield a
consistent distance on average; however, the internal scatter is twice as large
as the average measurement error. I discuss parameters of LMC structure that
pertain to distance indicators, and speculate that warps discovered using the
color of the clump are not really warps.

Astrophysics